Authors and their military connections:

Question 1

Cato the Elder

Answer 1

Served under Scipio Africanus at Zama

Question 2

Ennius

Answer 2

Accompanied general Fulvius Nobilior to Ambracia and writes about it AND fought with Cato the Elder at Sardinia.

Question 3

Lucilius

Answer 3

Served under Scipio Aemilianus at the siege of Numantia

Question 4

Horace

Answer 4

Fight for Brutus and Cassius at Philippi as a tribunus militum

Question 5

Caesar

Answer 5

Writes about the Gallic War, Civil War, and campaigns in Spain

Question 6

Eutropius

Answer 6

Fought in Julians 363 BC expedition against the Persians

Question 7

Ammianus Marcellinus

Answer 7

Fought in Julians 363 BC expedition AND called himself “a soldier and a Greek”.