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NUMERIANUS, MARCUS AURELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUMERIANUS, See also:MARCUS AURELIUS , son of the See also:Roman See also:emperor See also:Carus. On the See also:death of his See also:father, whom he accompanied on his expedition against the Persians, he was proclaimed emperor (See also:December, A.D. 283). He resolved to abandon the See also:campaign, and' died mysteriously on his way back to See also:Europe, eight months afterwards- Arrius Aper, See also:praefect of the praetorianguards, his father-in-See also:law, who was suspected of having murdered him, was slain by See also:Diocletian, whom the soldiers had already proclaimed his successor. Numerianus is represented as having been a See also:man of considerable See also:literary attainments, and of remarkably amiable See also:character.

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