The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . ary ability, rigid dis-cipline and heroic Lucius Domit-ius Aurelianus was theson of a peasant and wasborn September 9th,214, A. d., at Sirmium inPannonia. He enlistedin the army as a com-mon soldier, and beingtall, brave and of remark-able strength, became sonoted for his exploits,that he was surnamedSword in hand. He obtained successively the rank ofcenturion, tribune, prefect of a legion, and general of afrontier. He is said to have killed forty-eight Sarmatians inone day. When he was tribune o
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . ary ability, rigid dis-cipline and heroic Lucius Domit-ius Aurelianus was theson of a peasant and wasborn September 9th,214, A. d., at Sirmium inPannonia. He enlistedin the army as a com-mon soldier, and beingtall, brave and of remark-able strength, became sonoted for his exploits,that he was surnamedSword in hand. He obtained successively the rank ofcenturion, tribune, prefect of a legion, and general of afrontier. He is said to have killed forty-eight Sarmatians inone day. When he was tribune of a legion in Gaul, herepelled an inroad of the Franks, who had crossed the Rhine,and now first appear in history. His success in war is ascribedpartly to his strict attention to minute articles of , stealing and drunkenness were severely prohibited,his soldiers were required to be modest and frugal; theirarmor kept bright, and their weapons sharp. In the reign of Valerian he was lieutenant to UlpiusCrinitus, captain-general of Illyria and Thrace, who adopted 95. 96 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS. Aurelian and gave him his daughter Ulpia in expelled the Goths from Illyria, and for this import-ant service Valerian publicly thanked him and proclaimedhim consul elect (257 ). He was eulogized as the libera-tor of Illyricum, the restorer of Gaul and the rival of successor, Claudius, appointed Aurelian captain-general of Illyria and Thrace and commander-in-chief ofthe cavalry of the empire, and confided to him the defenseof the frontier against the Goths. Claudius, in his last ill-ness, recommended Aurelian as the most deserving of thethrone and the best qualified to execute the great designswhich he himself had undertaken. Aurelian was also pro-claimed by the army and succeeded Claudius in 270 The reign of Aurelian, says Gibbon, lasted only fouryears and about nine months ; but every instant of that shortperiod was
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