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6 days ago · How to say Galerius in English? Pronunciation of Galerius with 2 audio pronunciations, 1 meaning, 12 translations, 2 sentences and more for Galerius.
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(Classical) IPA(key): /ɡaˈleː.ri.us/, [ɡäˈɫ̪eːriʊs̠](modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡaˈle.ri.us/, [ɡäˈlɛːrius]Galērius m (genitive Galēriī or Galērī); second declension 1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: 1.1. Galerius, a Roman emperor
“Galerius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon PressFull name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311):.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
6 days ago · Search for: 'Galerius' in Oxford Reference ». Of peasant stock, was born in the ad 250s on the Danube. A herdsman, tough and uneducated, he rose high in the army and (perhaps) became praetorian prefect of Diocletian, to whom his loyalty was unswerving. On the establishment of the tetrarchy Diocletian proclaimed him Caesar (293); he divorced ...
Galerius (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus; perhaps originally named Maximinus), of a peasant family of Dacian origin, was born in about 260 on the Danube at a place he later renamed Romuliana (modern Gamzigrad) after his mother Romula. Before he joined the army, he herded sheep from which he earned the nickname “Armentarius”. He rose ...
Romula (alleged) [9] Religion. Roman polytheism. Galerius Valerius Maximianus [j] ( / ɡəˈlɛəriəs /; Greek: Γαλέριος; c. 258 – May 311) was Roman emperor from 305 to 311. During his reign he campaigned, aided by Diocletian, against the Sasanian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 299.
