General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ula, titvcteribus Codicibus, emendata & restituta, & Oracula Magica Zoroastris, Jovis,Apollinis, &c. Gr. & Lat. cum Notis variorum,&c. 1689, 4to. Some time before his deathhe had also begun a new edition of MinutiusFelix, which he did not live to complete. Fa-bricii Bib/. vol. I. lib. i. cap. 32. Bibl. Hist. & Crit.—M. GALLIENUS, P. Licinius,Roman emperor,son of Valerian, was raised to th
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ula, titvcteribus Codicibus, emendata & restituta, & Oracula Magica Zoroastris, Jovis,Apollinis, &c. Gr. & Lat. cum Notis variorum,&c. 1689, 4to. Some time before his deathhe had also begun a new edition of MinutiusFelix, which he did not live to complete. Fa-bricii Bib/. vol. I. lib. i. cap. 32. Bibl. Hist. & Crit.—M. GALLIENUS, P. Licinius,Roman emperor,son of Valerian, was raised to the purple by hisfather at his accession in 253, being theneighteen or twenty years of age. He was im-mediately sent to the banks of the Rhine, inorder to oppose an incursion of the Germans orFranks into Gaul; and with the aid of the ablegeneral Posthumus, he obtained several advan-tages over them. At this period the Romanempire was invaded on all sides by the sur-rounding barbarians; and a war with the Persiansproduced the defeat and captivity of Valerianin 260. Gallienus received the intelligence ofthis disaster with an affectation of philosophy,. (^ dilr ? iseriruiro &uttter*sz inr ? GAL ( 295 ) GAL which ill concealed his pleasure at the removalof a partner and a superior. He thenceforthreigned alone, and gave full display to a charac-ter which has ranked him with the worst of theRoman emperors. He possessed a lively genius,which enabled him to succeed in a variety ofpursuits, but his inconstancy and want of judg-ment rendered him a trifler, and unfitted himfor the more weighty duties of his station. He was, says Gibbon, a master of severalcurious but useless sciences, a ready orator andelegant poet, a skilful gardener, an excellentcook, and most contemptible prince. Heamused himself with philosophy; and was, itis said, upon the point of giving Plotinus, thePlatonist, a ruined city for the purpose of mak-ing the experiment of Platos republic. H
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