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a Probus permitted the Gauls and Pannonians to have vines, and he gave the Alma and Aureus hills, planted by the army, to be harvested by the provincials. 1 * Tigris, died by a flash of lightning. (*)
2 a Numerian, as he was being carried along in a litter due to a pain in his eye, was slain by a plot of his father-in-law Aper. The wickedness was only discovered several days later due to the stench of the corpse. (*) 285
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4 b Cyrillus is appointed 18th bishop of Antioch. 281 b Carinus, defeated in battle at the Margus, is slain. (*)
33rd of the Romans, Diocletian reigned for 20 years.
c Saturninus, the master of the army, began to refound a new city at Antioch: who afterwards is slain at Apamea attempting to take possession of the empire.
1 c Diocletian from Dalmatia, the son of a scribe, after being elected emperor immediately struck Aper in the assembly of the soldiers, swearing that Numerian had been killed without his being involved. 286
5 d Eutychianus received the 26th episcopate of the Church of Rome for 8 months, after which Gaius was 27th for 15 years. 282
2 d Diocletian adopted as co-ruler Maximianus Herculius who, after suppressing a multitude of peasants, to whose faction he gave the name of Bacaudae, restored peace to the Gallic provinces. (*) 287
6 e Probus is murdered in an uprising of the military in a tower, which is called Ferrata, near Sirmium. (*) 283 3 288
f Theonas presided as the 15th bishop of the Alexandrian church for 19 years. 267th Olympiad
4 e After assuming the purple, Carausius occupied Britain. Narsaeus made war in the East. * 289
32nd of the Romans, Carus with his sons Carinus and Numerian, for two years.
f The Quinquegentani 2 infested Africa. *
2300 1 284 g Achilleus seized Egypt. For these reasons Constantius and Galerius Maximianus were adopted into the royal power as Caesars. Constantius was the nephew of Claudius through his daughter, and Galerius was born in Dacia not far from Serdica. And so that Diocletian might be connected to them by marriage, Constantius
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g Carus, from Narbonne, when he had taken Cochis and Ctesiphon, the most important cities of the enemy, after all the region of the Parthians had been devastated, while setting up camp besides the
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(1) Eutropii Breviarium Liber Nonus 17: Vineas Gallos et Pannonios habere permisit, opere militari Almam montem apud Sirmium et Aureum apud Moesiam superiorem vineis conseruit et provincialibus colendos dedit.
(2) The Five Tribes.
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married Theodora the stepdaughter of Herculius, from whom afterwards he had six children, the brothers of Constantine; Galerius married Valeria the daughter of Diocletian, after both being obliged to divorce the wives they had. (*) the church of Jerusalem.
7 292 a After ten years Britain recovered by Asclepiodotus, the praetorian prefect. *