365 365 366 367 367 369 370 371 373 374 374 375 Carus defeats the Sarmatians and marches into the East 233 He gives Audience to the Persian Ambassadors 283 His victories and extraordinary Death ... The Reign of Diocletian and his three Associates, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius-General Re-establishment of Order and Tranquillity-The Persian War, Victory, and Triumph-The New Form of Administration-Abdication and Retirement of Diocletian and Maximian 285 Elevation and Character of Diocletian His Clemency in Victory 286 Association and Character of Maximian 292 Association of two Cæsars, Galerius and Constantius [293] Departments and Harmony of the four Princes 377 378 379 381 382 383 383 384 384 385 385 386 387 CHAPTER XIV Troubles after the abdication of Diocletian-Death of Constantius-Elevation of Constantine and Maxentius-Six Emperors at the same time-Death of Maximian and Galerius-Victories of Constantine over Maxentius and LiciniusReunion of the Empire under the Authority of Constantine Ambition of Galerius disappointed by two Revolutions 274 Birth, Education, and Escape of Constantine ... 306 Death of Constantius and Elevation of Constantine He is acknowledged by Galerius, who gives him only the title of The Brothers and Sisters of Constantine ... Discontent of the Romans at the Apprehension of Taxes 306 Maxentius declared Emperor at Rome Maximian reassumes the Purple ... 397 Defeat and Death of Severus Maximian gives his daughter Fausta, and the Title of Augustus, to Unfortunate Fate of the Empress Valeria and her Mother 814 Quarrel between Constantine and Licinius PAGE 425 425 426 427 428 428 430 432 432 433 434 435 435 436 437 439 439 440 440 440 442 443 444 444 445 447 448 449 450 451 453 454 456 457 459 459 459 460 460 461 463 464 464 465 466 467 469 470 472 473 474 475 476 9. The Constitution of the Roman Empire 10. The Constitutional Significance of the Principate of Septimius Severus 11. Chronology of 238 A.D. 492 493 12. Authorities for Oriental Affairs 494 13. The Zend Avesta ... 494 14. The origin of the Goths, and the Gothic History of Jordanes 495 17. The pretenders in the reign of Gallienus, known as the Thirty 23. Diocletian's Edict De Pretiis Rerum Venalium 24. The Arch of Constantine 22. German campaigns of Diocletian, Maximian, and Constantius 25. Population of the Greek and the Roman World 26. The Roumanians and the Evacuation of Dacia 27. Gibbon's revision of his First Volume 503 503 504 505 505 506 ILLUSTRATIONS (SELECTED BY MR. O. M. DALTON) EDWARD GIBBON (from the painting by Henry Walton in the National STA MARIA IN ARA COLI, where Gibbon conceived the idea of writing his PAGE history (exterior and interior) ... ... From Photographs by S. J. Beckett. BAS-RELIEF OF THE TIME OF TRAJAN (now in the Louvre): a Roman ... From a Photograph by A. Girandon. ... A ROMAN AQUEDUCT: the Pont du Gard (Remoulins, France) From a Photograph by Neurdein. ROMAN ROAD NORTH OF KEFR KERMIN IN SYRIA ... By permission of the Century Co., New York. BAS-RELIEFS ON THE COLUMN OF Marcus Aurelius at Rome— (1) Decapitation of German prisoners (2) The Emperor receiving a messenger. MARBLE BUST OF THE EMPEROR SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, who died at York, From & Photograph by W. A. Mansell & Co. ... ROMAN ARCH AND TOMB AT SAINT-RÉMY, BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE, FRANCE From & Photograph by Neurdein. BRONZE STATUETTE OF AN IMPERIAL PERSONAGE found at Barking HALL, A ROMAN ARENA: exterior and interior of the Amphitheatre at Verona 208 230 From a Photograph by R. Moscioni. BATTLE OF ROMANS AND BARBARIANS, on a sarcophagus in the Museo delle Terme, Rome. The central figure may represent Claudius Gothicus (A.D. 268-270) ... From a Photograph by S. J. Beckett. SAPOR AND VALERIAN. Sassanian rock-sculpture at Naksh-i-Rustam. |