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GALLIENUS, PUBLIUS LICINIUS EGNATIUS

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GALLIENUS, PUBLIUS See also:LICINIUS EGNATIUS , See also:Roman See also:emperor from A.D. 260 to 268, son of the emperor See also:Valerian, was See also:born about 218. From 253 to 260,he reigned conjointly with his See also:father, during which See also:time he gave See also:proof of military ability and bravery. But when his father was taken prisoner by See also:Shapur I. of See also:Persia, in 26o, Gallienus made no effort to obtain his See also:release, or to with-stand the incursions of the invaders who threatened the See also:empire from all sides. He occupied See also:part of his time in dabbling in literature, See also:science and various trifling arts, but gave himself up chiefly to excess and debauchery. He deprived the senators of their military and provincial commands, which were transferred to See also:equites. During his reign the empire was ravaged by a fearful pestilence; and the See also:chief cities of See also:Greece were sacked by the Goths, who descended on the See also:Greek See also:coast with a See also:fleet of five See also:hundred. His generals rebelled against him in almost every See also:province of the empire, and this See also:period of Roman See also:history came to be called the reign of the See also:Thirty Tyrants. Nevertheless, these usurpers probably saved the empire at the time, by maintaining See also:order and repelling the attacks of the barbarians. Gallienus was killed at See also:Mediolanum by his own soldiers while besieging Aureolus, who was proclaimed emperor by the Illyrian legions. His sons See also:Valerianus and Saloninus predeceased him. See also:Life by Trebellius See also:Pollio in Script.

Hist. Aug. ; on coins see articles in Numism. Zeit. (1908) and Riv. ital. d. num. (1908).

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