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See also:DECIUS, See also:GAIUS MESSIUS See also:QUINTUS TRAJANUS (2017-251) , See also:Roman See also:emperor, the first of the See also:long See also:succession of distinguished men from the Illyrian provinces, was See also:born at Budalia near Sirmium in See also:lower See also:Pannonia in A.D. 201. About 245 the emperor See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip the Arabian entrusted him with an important command on the See also:Danube, and in 249 (or end of 248), having been sent to put down a revolt of the troops in See also:Moesia and Pannonia, he was forced to assume the imperial dignity. He still protested his See also:loyalty to Philip, but the latter advanced against him and was slain near See also:Verona. During his brief reign Decius was engaged in important: operations against the Goths, who crossed the Danube and overran the districts of Moesia and See also:Thrace. The details are obscure, and there is considerable doubt as to the See also:part taken in the See also:campaign by Decius and his son (of the same name) respectively.. The Goths were surprised by the emperor while besieging See also:Nicopolis on the Danube; at his approach they crossed the Balkans, and attacked See also:Philippopolis. Decius followed them, but a severe defeat near Beroe made it impossible to See also:save Philippopolis, which See also:fell into the hands of the Goths, who treated the conquered with frightful See also:cruelty. Its See also:commander, Prisms, declared himself emperor under See also:Gothic See also:protection. The See also:siege of Philippopolis had so exhausted the See also:numbers and resources of the Goths, that they offered to surrender their See also:booty and prisoners on See also:condition of being allowed to retire unmolested. But Decius, who had succeeded in surrounding them and hoped to cut off their See also:retreat, refused to entertain their proposals. The final engagement, in which the Goths fought with the courage of despair, took See also:place on swampy ground in the See also:Dobrudja near Abritum (Abrittus) or See also:Forum Trebonii and ended in the defeat and See also:death of Decius and his son. Decius was an excellent soldier, a See also:man of amiable disposition, and a capable See also:administrator, worthy of being classed with the best See also:Romans of the See also:ancient type. The See also:chief blot on his reign was the systematic and authorized persecution of the Christians, which See also:bad for its See also:object the restoration of the See also:religion and institutions of ancient See also:Rome. Either as a concession to the See also:senate, or perhaps with the See also:idea of improving public morality, Decius endeavoured to revive the See also:separate See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and authority of the See also:censor. The choice was See also:left to the senate, who unanimously selected See also:Valerian (afterwards emperor). But Valerian, well aware of the dangers and difficulties attaching to the office at such a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, declined the responsibility. The invasion of the Goths and the death of Decius put an end to the abortive See also:attempt.
See Aurelius See also:Victor, De Caesaribus, 29, Epit. 29; Jordanes, De See also:rebus Geticis, 18; fragments of See also:Dexippus, in C. W. See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, Frag. [See also:list. Graec. iii. (1849); See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, See also:chap. ro; H. See also:Schiller, Geschichte der romischen Kaiserzeit, i. (pt. 2), 1883.
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