Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . 54 . r,ORS gods. ict, the were t!i n pro ? at ion. Hy ..;. and a few itrius, who I u- led ro- i hor- rtyred . >iic least (303) Diocletian s nc. where he and •)r of a triumph, 1 ive games. This . .,11c saw. The p ,,..., . ,iy complained of on the occasion, w .cd that moderation and tem- I when the censor was present. They vented their which so hurt Diocletian that he left Rome >T for R 1. in very cold weather. In this aumajAo Id^g-iiToiv ^F
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1 . 54 . r,ORS gods. ict, the were t!i n pro ? at ion. Hy ..;. and a few itrius, who I u- led ro- i hor- rtyred . >iic least (303) Diocletian s nc. where he and •)r of a triumph, 1 ive games. This . .,11c saw. The p ,,..., . ,iy complained of on the occasion, w .cd that moderation and tem- I when the censor was present. They vented their which so hurt Diocletian that he left Rome >T for R 1. in very cold weather. In this aumajAo Id^g-iiToiv ^F ^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^ following 1,1 HP!, lie was reported to be dead,ved himself in public, but greatly ^ ? and it is said that ian did it sponta- spot three miles out of -Jus as Caesar, and cs of age warned «n of the state into ius, and Maximinus ount of the cere- -j present, and the !i they heard another changed his name. forward Maximinus . iiim with the purple •?\ his carriage to Nico- ., near which he built for the rest of his regret. ag to his palace Ya. DIOCLETIAN 55 and other buildings still remain, with three of the gates, as well as a temple,which is now a church at Spalatro, or Spalato, in Dalmatia, a comparatively mod-ern town, grown out of the decay of the ancient Salona, and built in great partwithin the walls of Diocletians residence, from the name of which, Palatium,it is believed that Spalato is derived. At the same time that Diocletian abdicated at Nicomedia, Maximianus, ac-cording to an agreement between them, performed a similar ceremony at Milan,proclaiming Constantius as Augustus, and Severus as Caesar. Both Severusand Maximinus Daza were inferior persons, and creatures of Galerius, who in-sisted upon their nomination in preference to that of Maxentius and Constan-tine, whom Diocletian had at first proposed. Maximianus retired to his seat inLucania, but not being endowed with the firmness of Diocletian he tried sometime after to recover his former power, and
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