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See also: CLAUDIUS, See also:MARCUS AURELIUS , surnamed GOTHICUS, See also:Roman See also:emperor A.D. 268-270, belonged to an obscure Illyrian See also:family. On See also:account of his military ability he was placed in command of an See also:army by See also:Decius; and See also:Valerian appointed him See also:general on the Illyrian frontier, and ruler of the provinces of the See also:lower See also:Danube. During the reign of See also:Gallienus, he was called to See also:Italy in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to crush Aureolus; and on the See also:death of the emperor (268) he was chosen as his successor, in accordance, it was said, with his See also:express See also:desire. Shortly after his See also:accession he routed the See also:Alamanni on the Lacus Benacus (some doubt is thrown upon this); in 269 a See also:great victory over the Goths at Naissus in See also:Moesia gained him the See also:title of Gothicus. In the following See also:year he died of the See also:plague at Sirmium, in his fifty-See also:sixth year. He enjoyed great popularity, and appears to have been a See also:man of ability and See also:character.
His See also:life was written by Trebellius See also:Pollio, one of the Scriptores Historiae Auguslae; see also See also:Zosimus i. 4o-43, the histories of Th. See also:Bernhardt and H. See also:Schiller, and See also:special See also:dissertations by A. See also:Duncker on the life of Claudius (1868) and the defeat of the Alamanni (Annalen See also:des Vereins fiir nassauische Altertumskunde, 1879) ; Homo, De Claudio Gothico (1900) ; Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, H. 2458 if. (Henze).
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