History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . OF JERUSALEM WITH THENAME OF PESCENNIOS 1 From the middle of 193 to the spring of 196. 2 IMP. CAES. C. PESC. NIGER IVS(tus) AVG. surrounding the laurelled head ofPescennius Niger. On the reverse: COL. AEL. CAP. COMM(odiana) P(ia) F(elix). Thegenius of Aelia Capitolina Commodiana (Jerusalem), bearing in the right hand a human coin (De Saulcy, pi. v. fig. 7). Coins of Tarsus and Aegae, in Cilitia, prove thatthese cities also took the name of Commodus. 3 We have still the epitap
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . OF JERUSALEM WITH THENAME OF PESCENNIOS 1 From the middle of 193 to the spring of 196. 2 IMP. CAES. C. PESC. NIGER IVS(tus) AVG. surrounding the laurelled head ofPescennius Niger. On the reverse: COL. AEL. CAP. COMM(odiana) P(ia) F(elix). Thegenius of Aelia Capitolina Commodiana (Jerusalem), bearing in the right hand a human coin (De Saulcy, pi. v. fig. 7). Coins of Tarsus and Aegae, in Cilitia, prove thatthese cities also took the name of Commodus. 3 We have still the epitaph of a Sidonian killed in this • war of the Moors. Cf. DeSaulcy, Deux inter, de Saida. * Ta>v Se S17 /3ov\evTuv rav Pa/iaiau airiKrave oideva (Dion, lxxiv. 8). Spartianus COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 a. d. 489 tented himself with confiscation and a sentence of exile. Others,who had furnished money, paid a fine of fourfold the amountDion accuses Severus of having revived the trade of the informersand of having condemned the innocent. The historians text,. SEPTIMUS extremely mutilated in this place, does not permit us to discuss thisfact, which indeed would not have surprised a people habituated bylong usage to political retaliations. But another conclusion may bedrawn from the following incident. Cassius Clemens, a senator. (Sev. 9) says that only one perished ; but as lie copies indiscriminately (lie information whichhis reading furnished him, he contradicts himself three times in one Bust found at. Porto dAnzio; Capitol, Corridor, No. 3. 490 THE AFRICAN AND SYRIAN PRINCES, 180 TO 235 a. d. being called before the tribunal of the Emperor, said in bis defence:• I knew neither you nor Niger; finding myself in bis party, Iyielded to necessity, not for tbe purpose of fighting against you, butof dispossessing Julianus. I therefore was pursuing the same objectas you. If, later, I did not abandon the chief whom the gods badgiven me,
Size: 1487px × 1679px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorduruyvic, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1883
