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English: Gallienus

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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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GALLIENUS, P. Licinius, Roman emperor,son of Valerian, was raised to the purple by his father at his accession in 253, being then eighteen or twenty years of age. He was immediately sent to the banks of the Rhine, in order to oppose an incursion of the Germans or Franks into Gaul; and with the aid of the able general Posthumus, he obtained several advantages over them. At this period the Roman empire was invaded on all sides by the surrounding barbarians; and a war with the Persians produced the defeat and captivity of Valerian in 260. Gallienus received the intelligence of this disaster with an affectation of philosophy, which ill concealed his pleasure at the removal of a partner and a superior. He thenceforth reigned alone, and gave full display to a character which has ranked him with the worst of the Roman emperors. He possessed a lively genius, which enabled him to succeed in a variety of pursuits, but his inconstancy and want of judgment rendered him a trifler, and unfitted him for the more weighty duties of his station. He was, says Gibbon, a master of several curious but useless sciences, a ready orator and elegant poet, a skilful gardener, an excellent cook, and most contemptible prince. He amused himself with philosophy; and was, it is said, upon the point of giving Plotinus, the Platonist, a ruined city for the purpose of making the experiment of Platos republic. He was habitually voluptuous and indolent; yet at times, under some sudden emotion, he appeared either the intrepid warrior, or the merciless tyrant.

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