A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . e first care of 208 FROM a ABAC ALL A TO GALLIENUS. Valerian, who, with a quick eye for men of ability, brought together agood staff of officers, was to save the Danube frontier. Dacia was prac-tically lost from 256; and about 255 the Goths and Herulibegan to send out fleets upon the Black Sea, from the mouth of theDniester and the Crimea, and to ravage the northern coasts of AsiaMinor. The discipline of the troops was deplorable; Gallienus was unpopular; and the am-bition that drove thegenerals
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . e first care of 208 FROM a ABAC ALL A TO GALLIENUS. Valerian, who, with a quick eye for men of ability, brought together agood staff of officers, was to save the Danube frontier. Dacia was prac-tically lost from 256; and about 255 the Goths and Herulibegan to send out fleets upon the Black Sea, from the mouth of theDniester and the Crimea, and to ravage the northern coasts of AsiaMinor. The discipline of the troops was deplorable; Gallienus was unpopular; and the am-bition that drove thegenerals to grasp at thepurple weakened theconfidence of the gov-ernment in its Valerian wasengaged with the Per-sians, in 259-260,the officer to whom thedefence of the Rhinehad been intrusted,Marcus CassianiusLatinius Postumus, as-sumed the purple, andduring the ensuing con-fusion the Frankscrossed the Rhine,and, plundering Gaul,reached Tarragona, inSpain. In the Orient,at the end of 259,or beginning of , Valerian — whoin 257 had re-newed the persecution. Fig. 98. — Gallienus. Antique bust in Rome, CapitolineMuseum. (From a photograph.) of the Christians — was taken prisoner by treachery in an interviewwith Sapor, at Edessa, and died in captivity some years later. ThePersians then captured, plundered, and partially destroyed Antiochand the Cappadocian Caesarea. Gallienus (Fig. 98), who after the downfall of his father be-came sole emperor, never was in the condition personally to avengehim. The right bank of the Upper Rhine and a part of the provinceof Rhaetia were now lost to the Alamanni, who in their raids roved into THE THIRTY TYRANTS. 209 southeastern Gaul and Upper Italy. A band which reached Ravennawas destroyed by Gallienus at Milan. The energy with which thesenate took part in the defence of Italy made the emperor so mistrustsful that he excluded men of senatorial rank from the army. He had reason enough for mistrust. Personally brave,
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