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VALERIANUS, PUBLIUS LICINIUS

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VALERIANUS, PUBLIUS See also:LICINIUS , See also:Roman See also:emperor from A.D. 2J3 to 260. He was of See also:noble See also:family, and in 238 was princeps senalas. In 251, when See also:Decius revived the censorship with legislative and executive See also:powers so extensive that it practically embraced the See also:civil authority of the emperor, See also:Valerian was chosen See also:censor by the See also:senate. After the See also:death of Decius Valerian retained the confidence of his successor, Trebonianus See also:Gallus, who sent him to fetch troops to quell the See also:rebellion of Aemilianus, See also:governor of See also:Moesia and See also:Pannonia. The soldiers in See also:Raetia, however, See also:pro-claimed Valerian emperor; and marching slowly towards See also:Rome he found both his rivals dead, slain by their own soldiers. Valerian was about sixty-three years of See also:age, and had scarcely the vigour to See also:deal with the enemies that threatened every frontier of the See also:empire. Taking his son See also:Gallienus as colleague, he See also:left the See also:wars in See also:Europe to his direction, under which matters went from See also:bad to worse and the whole See also:West See also:fell into disorder. Valerian See also:chose for his own See also:part the See also:war in the See also:East, where See also:Antioch had fallen into the hands of a See also:Persian See also:vassal and See also:Armenia was occupied by See also:Shapur (Sapor) I., while in 258 the Goths ravaged See also:Asia See also:Minor. Valerian recovered Antioch, fought in See also:Mesopotamia with mixed success and finally was taken See also:captive. It is said that he was subjected to the greatest insults by his captors, and that after his death his skin was stuffed with See also:straw and preserved as a See also:trophy in the See also:chief Persian See also:temple. Owing to imperfect and contradictory authorities, the See also:chronology and details of this reign are very uncertain.

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Pollio, See also:Life of Valerian (frags.); Aurelius See also:Victor, Caesares, 32; See also:Eutropius ix. 6; See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus See also:xxiii. 5; See also:Zosimus i. 27; See also:Gibbon, Decline and Fall, See also:chap. so; H. See also:Schiller, Geschichte der romischen Kaiserzeit, i. pt. 2.

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