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Galerius, emperor. Galerius, emperor. (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus on his coinage; called Maximus in some Acts of martyrs, that having apparently been his name until Diocletian changed it; see Lact. Mort. 18; nicknamed Armentarius from his original occupation.) He was a native of Near Dacia, on the S. of the 377 Danube. His mother Romula ...
Valerius Maximus. Valerius Maximus ( / vəˈlɪəriəs ˈmæksɪməs /) was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX [ it] ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia ).
Galerius (Caius Galerius Valerius Maximinianus) (gəlērˈēəs), d. 310, Roman emperor (305–10). Diocletian appointed him caesar for the eastern part of the empire in 293 ( Constantius I was caesar of the West).
Maximus claimed (and got) the equal title of Augustus. For the first, and indeed for the last time, six emperors administered the Roman world. Although the memory of a recent war divided the empire into two great hostile powers, their fears and the fading authority of Galerius produced an apparent tranquility in the imperial government.
Germanicus Maximus ("great victor in Germania"), 213; Maximinus Thrax, 235–238 Germanicus Maximus ("great victor in Germania"), 235; Philip the Arab. Germanicus Maximus ("great victor in Germania"), ca 247; Caspicus Maximus ("great victor of the Carpi") ca 247; Claudius II, 268–270 Gothicus Maximus ("great victor against the Goths"), 269 ...
Thcn Paternus the Proconsul bade them lead away the Bishop Cyprian into exile. During his long abode in this place, Aspasius Paternus was succeeded by Galerius Maximus, who bade the Bishop Cyprian be recalled from exile, and brought before him [A.D. 258.]. Cyprian, the holy Martyr, chosen of God, returned from Curubis, to which he had been ...
Simon Corcoran. 2006, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 49, pp. 231-240. A recently published inscription from Heraclea Sintica in Macedonia (AE 2002.1293) gives full and detailed titulature for Galerius and Maximinus, dating to Dec. 307/Apr. 308. Among other things, this titulature confirms that Galerius initially counted his ...
