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and they killed him in the middle of his journey, as he was going from Byzantium to Heraclea, near the so-called New Fort. However, he did not die unavenged. For his murderers paid the penalty, and he himself was decreed among the divine emperors *.

157 TACITUS. Ibid.: That when Tacitus had undertaken the rule of Rome, the Scythians through the

Maeotian Lake crossed over; whom he defeated in war and set out for Europe. And there, falling into a plot, he is killed for such a reason as this. He had handed over the rule of Syria to Maximinus, a kinsman. This man, treating those in authority most harshly, brought the emperor into envy and at the same time fear. And when these things produced hatred, what remained ended in a plot, in which they made accomplices those who had killed Aurelian, and attacking Maximinus himself, they slaughtered him; and pursuing Tacitus as he was setting out for Europe, they kill him, after he had reigned for six months in all.

158 PROBUS. Ibid.: That Probus and Florianus, the two of them, reigned together. And Probus

did not kill Florianus according to his own choice, after he had enjoyed power for 2 months and 20 days. 2. That when Probus was emperor of the Romans, Saturninus, a Moor by race, being especially dear to the emperor, and for this reason entrusted with the rule of Syria, abandoning his loyalty to the emperor, came to the thought of rebellion. When Probus heard this and was planning to pursue the undertaking, the soldiers in the east acted first, extinguishing the man along with his tyranny. He also stopped another rebellion in Britain, planned by Victorinus, a Moor by race. Persuaded by him, he had happened to appoint the rebel as ruler of Britain. And calling Victorinus to him, and having blamed him for the advice, he sends him to correct the mistake. And he, immediately setting out for Britain, kills the tyrant by a not unwise stratagem.

159 Exc. Salm.: When Probus began to rule, there was a rain bringing down grain, which they gathered and made great heaps. In the time of Aurelian, silver drops fell.

160 Exc. De ins.: That when Probus had accomplished many things, and had administered his rule well and justly, a rebellion is announced from the west, with the forces in Raetia and Noricum placing the purple on Carus. And when he sent a force to oppose him, those who were sent went over to Carus; and they themselves upon Probus, who was destitute of all help, with no one hindering, made away with him after he had reigned for six years, four months.

t161-163 CARUS.

161 Exc. Salm.: Numerian, having been blinded, in a covered litter from

Persia was being carried; whom his father-in-law secretly killed, and he was carried about as a corpse without it being known until it was revealed by the stench. Carinus was most cruel; who also took revenge on those who had once mocked him in the school.

162 Exc. De virt.: That Carinus, the son of Carus, when he became emperor accomplished nothing that brought a common benefit, but having given himself over to luxury and a dissolute life, an adjunct to luxury

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διαφθείρουσί τε αὐτὸν κατὰ μέσην τὴν πορείαν, ἐκ Βυζαντίου πρὸς Ἡράκλειαν ἰόντα, περὶ τὸ λεγόμενον Καινὸν φρούριον. Οὐ μὴν ἀτιμώρητος ἐτελεύτα. Οἵ τε γὰρ φονεῖς αὐτοῦ δίκας ὑπέσχον, καὶ αὐτὸς τοῖς θείοις τῶν αὐτοκρατόρων * ἐψηφίσθη.

157 ΤΑΚΙΤΟΣ. Ibid.: Ὅτι Τακίτου τὰ τῆς Ῥώμης ἀναδεξαμένου βασίλεια, Σκύθαι διὰ τῆς

Μαιώτιδος λίμνης ἐπεραιώθησαν· οὓς καταπολεμήσας ἐπὶ τὴν εὐρώπην ἐξώρμησεν. Ἔνθα δὴ καὶ εἰς ἐπιβουλὴν ἐμπεσὼν, ἐξ αἰτίας ἀναιρεῖται τοιᾶσδε. Μαξιμίνῳ γένει προσήκοντι τὴν Συρίας ἀρχὴν παραδέδωκεν. Οὗτος τοῖς ἐν τέλει τραχύτατα προσφερόμενος, εἰς φθόνον ἅμα καὶ φόβον τὸν βασιλέα κατέστησε. Τεκόντων δὲ τούτων μῖσος, τὸ λειπόμενον εἰς ἐπιβουλὴν ἐτελεύτησεν, ἧς κοινωνοὺς ποιησάμενοι τοὺς Αὐρηλιανὸν ἀνελόντας, αὐτῷ μὲν ἐπιθέμενοι τῷ Μαξιμίνῳ κατέσφαξαν· διώξαντες δὲ ἀναζευγνύντα ἐπὶ τὴν Εὐρώπην Τάκιτον ἀναιροῦσιν, ἓξ μησὶ τοῖς ὅλοις βασιλεύσαντα.

158 ΠΡΟΒΟΣ. Ibid.: Ὅτι Πρόβος καὶ Φλωριανὸς οἱ δύο ἅμα συνεβασίλευσαν. Καὶ ὁ Πρόβος

οὐ κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ προαίρεσιν ἀνεῖλε τὸν Φλωριανὸν, μήνας βʹ πρὸς ἡμέρας κʹ ἀπολαύσαντα τῆς ἐξουσίας. 2. Ὅτι Πρόβου βασιλεύσαντος Ῥωμαίων, Σατουρνῖνος τῷ γένει Μαυρούσιος, ὢν εἰς τὰ μάλιστα τῷ βασιλεῖ προσφιλὴς, διὰ τοῦτό τε καὶ τὴν τῆς Συρίας ἀρχὴν ἐπιτετραμμένος, τῆς βασιλέως ἀποστὰς πίστεως, εἰς ἐπαναστάσεως ἔννοιαν ἦλθεν. Ὅπερ ἀκούσαντι τῷ Πρόβῳ καὶ διανοουμένῳ τὸ ἐγχείρημα μετελθεῖν, ἔφθησαν οἱ κατὰ τὴν ἑῴαν στρατιῶται, συγκατασβέσαντες τῇ τυραννίδι τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Ἔπαυσε δὲ καὶ ἄλλην ἐπανάστασιν ἐν τῇ Βρεττανίᾳ, μελετηθεῖσαν διὰ Βικτωρίνου Μαυρουσίου τὸ γένος. Ὧπερ πεισθεὶς ἔτυχε τὸν ἐπαναστάντα τῆς Βρεταννίας ἄρχοντα προστησάμενος. Καλέσας δὲ τὸν Βικτωρῖνον πρὸς ἑαυτὸν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ συμβουλῇ μεμψάμενος, τὸ πταῖσμα ἐπανορθώσοντα πέμπει. Ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν Βρεττανίαν εὐθὺς ἐξορμήσας, περινοίᾳ οὐκ ἄφρονι τὸν τύραννον ἀναιρεῖ. 159 Exc. Salm.: Πρόβου ἀρχθέντος, βροχὴ γέγονε σῖτον κατάγουσα, ὃν συναγαγόντες σωροὺς μεγάλους ἐποίησαν. Ἐπὶ Αὐρηλιανοῦ ψεκάδες ἀργυραῖ κατηνέχθησαν. 160 Exc. De ins.: Ὅτι πολλὰ διαπραξαμένου τοῦ Πρόβου, καλῶς τε καὶ δικαίως οἰκονομήσαντος τὴν ἀρχὴν, ἐπανάστασις ἐκ τῆς ἑσπέρας ἀγγέλλεται, τῶν ἐν Ῥαιτίᾳ καὶ Νωρικῷ δυνάμεων Κάρῳ περιθέντων τὴν ἁλουργίδα. Τοῦ δὲ δύναμιν ἐναντιωσομένην αὐτῷ στείλαντος, οἱ μὲν πεμφθέντες πρὸς Κάρον μετέστησαν· αὐτοὶ δ' ἐπὶ πάντας ἐρήμῳ βοηθείας τῷ Πρόβῳ, κωλύοντος οὐδενὸς, διεχρήσαντο βασιλεύσαντα ἐνιαυτοὺς ἓξ, μήνας δʹ.

t161-163 ΚΑΡΟΣ.

161 Exc. Salm.: Νουμεριανὸς τυφλωθεὶς ἐν κεκαλυμμένῳ φορείῳ ἀπὸ

Περσίδος ἐβαστάζετο· ὃν λάθρα ἀνεῖλεν ὁ πενθερὸς, καὶ ἔλαθεν νεκρὸς φερόμενος ἕως ἐκ τῆς δυσωδίας ἐδηλώθη. Καρῖνος ὠμότατος ἦν· ὃς καὶ τούς ποτε ἐν τῷ παιδευτηρίῳ σκώψαντας εἰς αὐτὸν ἠμύνατο. 162 Exc. De virt.: Ὅτι Καρῖνος ὁ τοῦ Κάρου υἱὸς βασιλεύσας πρᾶγμα μὲν εἰς κοινὸν ὄφελος φέρον οὐδὲν εἰργάσατο, τρυφῇ δὲ καὶ ἐκδεδιῃτημένῳ βίῳ τὰ καθ' ἑαυτὸν παραδοὺς, παρανάλωμα τῆς τρυφῆς