Pontius Telesinus (died 2 November 82 BC) was the last independent leader of the Italic Samnites before their annexation by the Roman Republic. A fierce patriot, he was one of the rebel commanders in the Social War (91–87 BC) against Rome, leading the last remnants of the rebellion in southern Italy after the main uprising had already been suppressed. He intervened in the Roman civil wars of the 80s BC in an attempt to improve his and his people's position, but picked the losing side and was killed in 82 BC following the Battle of the Colline Gate against the Roman general Sulla.
Pontius Telesinus may be an ancestor of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea who oversaw the crucifixion of Jesus. [citation needed]
PontiusTelesinus (died 2 November 82 BC) was the last independent leader of the Italic Samnites before their annexation by the Roman Republic. A fierce...
Caesar's assassins Pontius Pilate, or Pilatus, Roman governor of Judaea who presided over the crucifixion of Jesus PontiusTelesinus, Samnite leader against...
Pontius Pilate (Latin: Pontius Pilatus; Greek: Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος, romanized: Póntios Pilátos) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving...
they would be next, decided to join the fray. The Samnite leader PontiusTelesinus rallied an army of 70,000 men from his own people and their allies...
and Gaius Marius against Sulla, who defeated them and their leader PontiusTelesinus at the Battle of the Colline Gate (82 BC). Afterward, they were assimilated...
revenge, but this is thought to be ahistorical. Pontius, a friend of Scipio Aemilianus. PontiusTelesinus, a Samnite leader during the Social War, and an...
Gaius Pontius ca. 320s BC Gellius Egnatius ca. 296 BC Gaius Papius Mutilus 90–89 with: PontiusTelesinus – Samnite commander to Papius Pontius Pilate...
- writer Pomponius Secundus - consul Gavius Pontius - Samnite general PontiusTelesinus - praetor Pontius Pilatus - prefect of Judaea Gaius Popillius...
during the Second Samnite War, when in 321 BC the Samnite army under PontiusTelesinus encamped there just before their great victory over the Romans in...
(attested 13 Aug.) C. Anicius Cerialis (attested 13 Aug.) 66 C. Luccius Telesinus C. Suetonius Paullinus Jul. M. Annius Afrinus C. Paccius Africanus Sep...
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