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Decius (Caius Messius Quintus Decius) (dē´shəs), 201–51, Roman emperor (249–51), b. Pannonia. He was sent by Philip (Philip the Arabian) to quell a mutiny, but when the soldiers hailed him as emperor, he marched at their head, defeated and killed Philip near Verona, and accepted the title of emperor, adding Trajan (Traianus) to his name.
Life. Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius was the son of Decius, a Roman general who later became emperor, and Herennia Etruscilla, his wife. His birth date is sometimes given between 220 and 230, but there is no way to confirm this. Etruscus was probably a young boy when he was proclaimed emperor in 251, as depicted in his coins.
In late 248, Gothic tribes had attacked the Roman province of Moesia on the frontier of the Danube River. Their advance was checked by the Roman general Pacatian, whose army subsequently proclaimed him emperor. The legitimate emperor Philip the Arab ordered the supportive and outspoken senator Decius to put down the rebellion. Before the ...
Definition: Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius (c. 201 AD – June 251 AD ), sometimes translated as Trajan Decius or Decius, was the emperor of the Roman Empire from 249 to 251. A distinguished politician during the reign of Philip the Arab, Decius was proclaimed emperor by his troops after putting down a rebellion in Moesia.
Glycerius (west, 473–474 ce) Julius Nepos (west, 474–475 ce) Romulus Augustulus (west, 475–476 ce) Leo I (east, 457–474 ce) Leo II (east, 474 ce) Zeno (east, 474–491 ce) This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen. This is a chronologically ordered list of Roman emperors. See also Roman Empire and ancient.
Roman emperor, A. D. 249-251, whose full name was C. MESSIUS QUINTUS TRAJANUS DECIUS, was born about the close of the second century at Bubalia, a village in Lower Pannonia, being the first of a long series of monarchs who traced their origin to an Illyrian stock. We are altogether unacquainted with his early career, but he appears to have been ...
By J. B. RIVES. In A.D. 249 the emperor Trajan Decius issued an edict requiring the inhabitants of the Roman Empire to sacrifice to the gods. With this decree, he also inaugurated the. first empire-wide persecution of Christians. Previously, persecutions of Christians had always been local affairs determined by local conditions.
