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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Arsa'cidae (search)
ade king of Armenia in the first year of the reign of Alexander Severus. (A. D. 222-223.) When his brother was killed by Artaxerxes (Ardashir), the first Sassanid on the Persian throne, he resisted the usurper, and united his warriors with those of Alexander Severus in the memorable war against Artaxerxes. [SASSANIDAE.] (Procop. de Aedificiis Justin. 3.1; D. C. 80.3, 4; Herodian, 6.2, &c.; Agathias, pp. 65, 134, ed. Paris.) Artavasdes Iii. The ally of Sapor against the emperor Valerian, A. D. 260. (Trebell. Poll. Valerian. 6.) Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. 9.8) mentions a Christian king of Armenia during the reign of Diocletian, who seems to have been the son of Artavasdes III. During the war of Diocletian with Narses, king of Persia, this king of Armenia joined the Roman army commanded by Galerius Caesar. After the accession of Maximinianus he was involved in a war with this emperor, who intended to abolish the Christian religion in Armenia. TIRIDATES III. [TIRIDATES III.] Arsaces
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Artavasdes Iii. The ally of Sapor against the emperor Valerian, A. D. 260. (Trebell. Poll. Valerian. 6.) Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. 9.8) mentions a Christian king of Armenia during the reign of Diocletian, who seems to have been the son of Artavasdes III. During the war of Diocletian with Narses, king of Persia, this king of Armenia joined the Roman army commanded by Galerius Caesar. After the accession of Maximinianus he was involved in a war with this emperor, who intended to abolish the Christian religion in Armenia.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aude'ntius (search)
Aude'ntius a Spanish bishop, of whom Gennadius (de Viris Illustribus, 100.14) records, that he wrote against the Manichaeans, the Sabellians, the Arians, and, with especial energy, against the Photinians. The work was entitled de Fide adversus Haereticos. Its object was to shew that the second person in the Trinity is co-eternal with the Father. Audentius is styled by Trithemius (de Script. Eccl. CI.) " vir in divinis scripturis exercitatum habens ingenium." Cave supposes him to have flourished about A. D. 260. [J.M.M]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Aure'olus (search)
Aure'olus After the defeat and captivity of Valerian, the legions in the different provinces, while they agreed in scorning the feeble rule of Gallienus, could by no means unite their suffrages in favour of any one aspirant to the purple; but each army hastened to bestow the title of Augustus upon its favourite general. Hence arose within the short space of eight years (A. D. 260-267) no less than nineteen usurpers in the various dependencies of Rome, whose contests threatened speedily to produce the complete dissolution of the empire. The biographies of these adventurers, most of whom were of very humble origin, have been compiled by Trebellius Pollio, who has collected the whole under the fanciful designation of the Thirty Tyrants. But the analogy thus indicated will not bear examination. No parallel can be established between those pretenders who sprung up suddenly in diverse quarters of the world, without concert or sympathy, each struggling to obtain supreme dominion for himself
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Cyri'ades (search)
s stands first in the list of the thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio [AUREOLUS], from whose brief, indistinct, and apparently inaccurate narrative we gather that, after having robbed his father, whose old age he had embittered by dissipation and vice, he fled to the Persians, stimulated Sapor to invade the Roman provinces, and, having assumed the purple together with the title of Augustus, was slain by his own followers after a short career of cruelty and crime. Gibbon thinks fit to assume that these events took place after the defeat and capture of Valerianus (A. D. 260); but our only authority expressly asserts, that the death of the usurper happened while the emperor was upon his march to the East (A. D. 258 or 259); and by that statement we must, in the absence of all other evidence, be content to abide. The medals published by Goltzius and Mediobarbus are rejected by numismatologists as unquestionably spurious. Further Information Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyr. i.[W.R]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Gallie'nus (search)
Gallie'nus with his full name, P. LICINIUS VALERIANUS EGNATIUS GALLIENUS, Roman emperor A. D. 260-268. When Valerian, upon the death of Aemilianus, was raised to the throne (A. D. 253), he immediately assumed his eldest son Gallienus as an associate in the purple, and employed him, under the care of the experienced Postumus, governor of Gaul, to check the incursions of the barbarian Franks and Alemanni upon the Upper Danube and the Rhine. Could we repose any faith in the testimony of medals an and dishonour. Our authorities are so imperfect, that it is impossible to describe with distinctness, even in outline, the events which occurred during the reign of Valerian, from his accession in A. D. 253 until his capture by the Persians in A. D. 260, or during the eight following years, while Gallienus alone enjoyed the title of Augustus. It is certain that towards the close of this period the Roman dominion, which for a quarter of a century had sustained a succession of shocks, which seem
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
's absence, performed the ceremony of his ordination, just as if he had been present. Upon this Gregory came from his hiding-place, and undertook the office, in the discharge of which he was so successful, that whereas, when he became bishop, there were only seventeen Christians in the city, at his death there were only seventeen persons who were not Christians, notwithstanding the two calamities of the Decian persecution, about A. D. 250, and the invasion of the northern barbarians, about A. D. 260, from which the church of Neocaesareia suffered severely during his bishopric. In the Decian persecution he fled into the wilderness, not, as it really appears, from fear, but to preserve his life for the sake of his flock. He was a warm champion of orthodoxy, and sat in the council which was held at Antioch in A. D. 265, to inquire into the heresies of Paul of Samosata. He died not long afterwards. The very probable emendation of Kuster to Suidas, substituting the name of Aurelian for tha
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Minucia'nus (search)
Minucia'nus 2. An Athenian, the son of Nicagoras, was also a Greek rhetorician, and lived in the reign of Gallienus (A. D. 260-2681). Works Suidas (s. v.) tells us that Minucianus was the author of *Te/xnh r(htorikh/, Progumna/smata, and *Logoi/ dia/foroi. The *Texnh was commented on by the sophist Pancratius (Suidas, s. v. *Pagkr.; Eudoc. p. 301), and is also referred to by Tzetzes (Chil. 4.693, 6.739, 12.570), but, as Westermann suggests, it may have been written by the elder Minucianus [No. 1]. A portion of this work, entitled *Peri\ e)pixeirhma/twn, is extant, and bears the title *Minoukianou= h)\ Nikago/rou. Editions It was published along with Alexander Numenius and Phoebammon, accompanied with a Latin version, by L. Normann. Upsal. 1690, 8vo., and is also printed in the Aldine collection of Greek rhetoricians, pp. 731-734, and in the ninth volume of Walz's Rhetores Graeci. *Progumna/smata The work of Minucianus, entitled *Progumna/smata, was commented on by Menand
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Mure'na, Abla'vius praefectus praetorio in the reign of Valerian (A. D. 253-260), who addressed Ablavius a letter respecting Claudius, afterwards emperor. (Trebell. Poll. Claud. 15.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Paulus (search)
thing more than that he was a native of Samosata, and that he neither inherited any property from his parents, nor followed any art or profession by which he could acquire wealth, before his exaltation to the bishopric of Antioch, apparently in A. D. 260. Cave ascribes his elevation to the influence of Zenobia [ZENOBIA], whose husband Odenathus [ODENATHUS] was allpowerful in the Fast. But although Athanasius states that Paul was in favour with Zenobia (Athanas. Historia Arianor. ad Monachos, 10not say that she procured his election to the bishopric, and in fact the context rather intimates that she did nob procure or aid his elevation; and beside, it does not appear that either Odenathus or Zenobia had any power at Antioch till after A. D. 260. There is no reason, therefore, to doubt that the election of Paul was free and spontaneous on the part of the church at Antioch; and this circumstance, combined with the silence of the ecclesiastical writers, who would gladly have laid hold of
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