A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ced from the Dniester, partly by water,partly by land, against the Balkan peninsula, — but this time to theirdestruction. The attacks of their fleet upon the Grecian islands andthe coasts of Greece were nowhere successful. The hordes that cameagainst the army of Claudius, partly through Moesia, and partly bywater to Thessalonica, and thence through Macedonia, were totally de-feated, in the latter part of the year, in a three days battle near Naissus(Nish). Fifty thousand Goths are said to have fallen. When
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ced from the Dniester, partly by water,partly by land, against the Balkan peninsula, — but this time to theirdestruction. The attacks of their fleet upon the Grecian islands andthe coasts of Greece were nowhere successful. The hordes that cameagainst the army of Claudius, partly through Moesia, and partly bywater to Thessalonica, and thence through Macedonia, were totally de-feated, in the latter part of the year, in a three days battle near Naissus(Nish). Fifty thousand Goths are said to have fallen. When the victor of Naissus died of the plague at Sirmium, in March, 270, the Illyrian legions made their commander, L. DomitiusAurelianus, emperor. Born September 9, 214, the son of apeasant of Sirmium, and already a well-tried general, Aurelianresembled (Fig. 100) his predecessor in talent, but was of a roughernature. Though loved by the troops, he was inexorably severe towardinsubordination, and with a fatherly benevolence for the people was at 211 212 THE ILLYRIAN times very harsh toward the senate. Dacia, which could not be kept,he gave up entirely, transporting a part of the inhabitants to the rightbank of the Danube. In the first half of 271 he drove out of Italythe Alamanni, who had penetrated far into the country, and made Romea vast fortress by the construction of a massive encircling wall (), completed in 276, whose length on the left bank of the Tiberwas 12,315 paces. He next turned to subdue Zenobia, who had gradu-ally extended her authority to the gates of Chalcedon, and on Aureliansaccession had proclaimed her son emperor in the Orient. Lower Egyptand Alexandria, the latter after a hard struggle, were recovered forRome, in 270, by Probus, afterward Aurelians successor. Aurelianhimself marched against the Palmyrene forces in 271. The armiesof Zenobia were deserted by the Persians, and disastrously defeated,first at Antio
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