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MAXIMIANUS, MARCUS AURELIUS VALERIUS

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MAXIMIANUS, See also:MARCUS AURELIUS See also:VALERIUS , surnamed HERCULIUS, See also:Roman See also:emperor from A.D. 286 to 305, was See also:born of humble parents at Sirmium in See also:Pannonia. He achieved distinction during See also:long service in the See also:army, and having been made See also:Caesar by See also:Diocletian in 285, received the See also:title of See also:Augustus in the following See also:year (See also:April 1, 286). In 287 he suppressed the rising of the peasants (Bagaudae) in See also:Gaul, but in 289, after a three years' struggle, his colleague and he were compelled to acquiesce in the See also:assumption by his See also:lieutenant See also:Carausius (who had crossed over to See also:Britain) of the title of Augustus. After 293 Maximianus See also:left the care of the See also:Rhine frontier to See also:Constantius Chlorus, who had been designated Caesar in that year, but in 297 his arms achieved a rapid and decisive victory over the barbarians of See also:Mauretania, and in 302 he shared at See also:Rome the See also:triumph of Diocletian, the last See also:pageant of the See also:kind ever witnessed by that See also:city. On the 1st of May 305, the See also:day of Diocletian's See also:abdication, he also, but without his colleague's sincerity, divested himself of the imperial dignity at See also:Mediolanum (See also:Milan), which had been his See also:capital, and retired to a See also:villa in Lucania; in the following year, however, he was induced by his son See also:Maxentius to reassume the See also:purple. In 307 he brought the emperor Flavius Valerius See also:Severus a See also:captive to Rome, and also compelled See also:Galerius to See also:retreat, but in 308 he was himself driven by Maxentius from See also:Italy into Illyricum, whence again he was compelled to seek See also:refuge at Arelate (See also:Arles), the See also:court of his son-in-See also:law, See also:Constantine. Here a false See also:report was received, or invented, of the See also:death of Constantine, at that See also:time absent on the Rhine. Maximianus at once grasped at the See also:succession, but was soon driven to Massilia (See also:Marseilles), where, having been delivered up to his pursuers, he strangled himself. See See also:Zosimus ii. 7—11; See also:Zonaras xii. 31—33; See also:Eutropius ix.

20, X. 2, 3; Aurelius See also:

Victor p. 39. For the emperor Galerius Valerius Maximianus see GALE5UUS.

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