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NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIGER, See also:GAIUS PESCENNIUS , See also:governor of See also:Syria under the See also:emperor See also:Commodus. On the See also:death of See also:Pertinax (A.D. 193), he was saluted emperor by the troops at See also:Antioch, but unaccountably delayed marching on See also:Rome until he learned that Septimius See also:Severus, one of the See also:rival claimants, had assumed the offensive. He then strongly garrisoned See also:Byzantium and the See also:principal towns of See also:Asia See also:Minor, but after his See also:legate Aemilianus had been defeated and slain near See also:Cyzicus he himself was driven from See also:Nicaea and routed near the Cilician See also:Gates. Having failed in an effort to See also:escape towards the See also:Euphrates, he was brought back and put to death in 194. Aelius Spartianus, Pescennius Niger; Dio See also:Cassius lxxii. 8; lxxiii. 13, 14.

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