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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...a singular contest arose between the army and Senate, each requesting the other to nominate a successor Six months elapsed in this generous strife; at length the Senate.chose TACITUS. one of their own body, seventy-five years old, and of exemplary character. He lived only six months after his elevation. The historian Tacitus was claimed by the Emperor as his ancestor. 10. Brass. Imp. C. M. CL(audius) Tacitus Aug. R. FELicit(as) TEMp(orum). 11. R. A woman holding a purse; Uberitas. Plenty 12. R. Concordia Militum. 13. Silver, of Florianus, brother of Tacitus, who assumed the purple as successor, but was murdered by his troops, A. D. 276. cb. 14. Brass, of the same. Virtus Aug. XXXVII. PROBUS, during a reign of six years, was warring from the Rhine to the Nile, and always With success. In a recess of peace, having set the soldiers to draining a marsh, a mutiny was raised, and he fell, A. D. 2S2, aged fifty. 11 In civil and military virtue, he was equal to any predecessor. 17. Gold. Imp. C. M. AuR(elius) Probus Aug. R. Securitas SjeCuli. In the exergue, Sis., for Siscia, either his birthplace, or the place of coinage. 18. Plated brass. R. Rom.e Jeternje. (He repaired the city.) 19. Small brass. Soli Invicto. 20. R. Victoria Germ. The Germans were driven from Gaul with immense loss; nine kings submitted, and sixteen thousand German youth were taken into the Roman army. XXXVIII. CARUS, Pretorian Prefect under Probus, succeeded that prince by election of the army, A. D. 282, at the age of fifty-two. He was killed in his tent by lightning, in a campaign against Persia, about one year after. 26. Brass. Imp. Carus P. F. Aug. R. Spes Publica. P. xxi. 27. R. Pax Exercit. Xxi. XXXIX. CARINUS and NUMERIAN, sons of Carus, succeeded their father, A. D. ...

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