Lucius Apronius was a Roman

Ancient Rome

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 military commander and a father-in-law of praetor

Praetor

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 Plautius Silvanus. Apronius shared in the achievements of Vibius Postumus and earned the ornaments of a triumph

Roman triumph

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 for his distinguished valor in Dalmatian revolt and Germanic Wars

Germanic Wars

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, along with Aulus Caecina Severus

Aulus Caecina Severus

Aulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished....

 and Gaius Silius

Gaius Silius

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 in 15 AD. In the Senate

Roman Senate

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, Apronius in 22 procured a decree of votive offerings should be made, due to the successful prosecution of Libo, who had engaged in subversive plotting against Tiberius

Tiberius

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In 23 Apronius, along with a former proconsul

Proconsul

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 of Africa Lucius Aelius Lamia vouched for innocence of one man, accused of supplying grain to Numidia

Numidia

Numidia was an ancient Berber kingdom in part of present-day Eastern Algeria and Western Tunisia in North Africa. It is known today as the Chawi-land, the land of the Chawi people , the direct descendants of the historical Numidians or the Massyles The kingdom began as a sovereign state and later...

n insurgent Tacfarinas

Tacfarinas

Tacfarinas was a Numidian deserter from the Roman army who led his own Musulamii tribe and a loose and changing coalition of other Ancient Libyan tribes in a war against the Romans in North Africa during the rule of emperor Tiberius .Although Tacfarinas' personal motivation is unknown, it is...

. However being a proconsul of Africa, Apronius by decimation

Decimation (Roman Army)

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 severely punished the cohort

Cohort (military unit)

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 of Legio III Augusta

Legio III Augusta

Legio tertia Augusta was raised in the year 43 BCE most likely by the consul Gaius Vibius Pansa and the emperor Augustus who served the Roman Empire in North Africa until at least the late 4th century CE. It is possible that it fought in the battle of Philippi against the murderers of Caesar...

, previously defeated by Tacfarinas. In 28, being a legatus

Legatus

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 of Lower Germany Apronius led the combined forces from Upper Germany in raising the siege of a Roman fort by the Frisii

Frisii

The Frisii were an ancient Germanic tribe living in the low-lying region between the Zuiderzee and the River Ems. In the Germanic pre-Migration Period the Frisii and the related Chauci, Saxons, and Angles inhabited the Continental European coast from the Zuyder Zee to south Jutland...

, only to be defeated by them soon after in a pitched battle.