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 . he appointed Galerius as Caesar, an Jpresented him to the troops at Nicomedia. At the same time Maximianusadopted on his part Constantius called Chlorus. The two Csesars repudiated theirrespective wives ; Galerius married Valeria, Diocletians daughter, adding to hisname that of Valerianus ; and Constantius married Theodora, daughter of Max-imianus. Galerius was a native of Dacia, and a good soldier, but violent andcruel ; he had been a herdsman i
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 . he appointed Galerius as Caesar, an Jpresented him to the troops at Nicomedia. At the same time Maximianusadopted on his part Constantius called Chlorus. The two Csesars repudiated theirrespective wives ; Galerius married Valeria, Diocletians daughter, adding to hisname that of Valerianus ; and Constantius married Theodora, daughter of Max-imianus. Galerius was a native of Dacia, and a good soldier, but violent andcruel ; he had been a herdsman in his youth, for which he has been styled, in de-rision, Armentarms. The two Caesars remained subordinate to the two Augusti,though each of the four was entrusted with the administration of a part of theEmpire. Diocletian kept to himself Asia and Egypt; Maximianus had Italy andAfrica; Galerius, Thrace and Illyricum; and Constantius had Gaul and it was rather an administrative than a political division. At the head of theedicts of each prince were put the names of all the four, beginning with that ofDiocletian. 62 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. Diocletian resorted to this arrangement probably as much for reasons of in-ternal as of external policy. For nearly a hundred years before, ever since thedeath of Commodus, the soldiers had been in the habit of giving or selling theimperial crown, to which any general might aspire. Between thirty and forty emperors had been thus suc-cessively made and unmade,many of whom only reigned afew months. By fixing uponfour colleagues, one in each ofthe great divisions of the Em-pire, each having his army, andall mutually checking one an-other, Diocletian put a stop tomilitary insolence and Empire was no longer putup to sale, the immediate and•intolerable evil was effectually cured, though another danger remained, that ofdisputes and wars between the various sharers of the imperial power ; still it wasa smaller danger and one which
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