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 . Si\\s felicitas by the failure in the East was no greater than that made ini\\e feliciias of Augustus by his retirement from the right bank of the Rhine. 60 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DIOCLETIAN (245-313) ,T ..jtiiifliiiiiiiiijllliiiiiiimJtJir;;;;. C /^?i<~ ^Aius Valerius Diocleti-ANUS, one of the mostfamous of the Roman emper-ors, was, as De Ouincey says, doubtless that man of ironwhom the times was born at Dioclea, inDalmatia, some say
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 . Si\\s felicitas by the failure in the East was no greater than that made ini\\e feliciias of Augustus by his retirement from the right bank of the Rhine. 60 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DIOCLETIAN (245-313) ,T ..jtiiifliiiiiiiiijllliiiiiiimJtJir;;;;. C /^?i<~ ^Aius Valerius Diocleti-ANUS, one of the mostfamous of the Roman emper-ors, was, as De Ouincey says, doubtless that man of ironwhom the times was born at Dioclea, inDalmatia, some say at Salona,about 245 according tosome, but others make him tenyears older. His original namewas Diocles, which he aftenvardchanged into Diocletianus. Heis said by some to have been the son of a notary, by others the freedman of a senator named Anulinus. fie en-tered the army at an early age, and rose gradually to rank; he served in Gaul,in Moesia, under Probus, and was present ^t the campaign against the Persians,in which Carus, then emperor, perished in a mysterious manner. Diocletiancommanded the household or imperial body-guards when young Numerianus,the son of Carus, was secretly put to death by Aper his father-in-law, while trav-elling in a close litter on account of illness, on the return of the army from Per-sia. *The death of Numerianus being discovered after several
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