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Balbinus was an admired orator, a poet of distinguished fame, and a wise magistrate, who had exercised with innocence and applause the civil jurisdiction in almost all the interior provinces of the empire. His birth was noble, his fortune affluent, his manners liberal and affable. In him, the love of pleasure was corrected by a sense of dignity ...
- April/May – July/August 238
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Balbinus was a Roman emperor for three months in 238. A patrician, Balbinus was a Salian priest, twice a consul, and proconsul in Asia. In 238, when the Senate led a rebellion of the Italian cities against Maximinus (emperor 235–238), it placed the government in the hands of a board of 20, one of
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Aug 7, 2020 · Balbinus was the son, either by birth or by adoption, of a high standing Roman named Caelius Calvinus (a member of the Salian priesthood and therefore a patrician). He had a distinguished senatorial career, becoming consul in AD 203 and 213,and held governorships of no less than seven provinces, the last two being Asia and Africa.
Oct 19, 2023 · Both old emperors were kidnapped and stripped naked. Pupieno and Balbinus were then led by the praetorian guard through the streets of Rome amidst jeers and beatings. After a long “game”, the deprived emperors were led into the praetorian barracks. The Germans tried to recapture them, but in vain.
Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus was Roman emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors. Introduction Balbinus Origins and career
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The emperor Balbinus. If we are to believe the historian Zonaras, Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus was about sixty years old when he became emperor in 238. This would mean that he was born in 178, at the end of the reign of the last of the "good emperors", Marcus Aurelius. Perhaps this is true, but several scholars have argued that Balbinus ...
Pupienus and Balbinus had their disagreements and eventually both Balbinus and Pupienus were assassinated on the same day by soldiers of the Praetorian guard. The Crisis of the Third Century was the period in Roman history following the death of Alexander Severus when Rome entered into the era of Military Anarchy commonly known as the Crisis of ...
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