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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
Anno ab urbe condita DCCCCLXXXVII Maximinus uicensimus secundus ab Augusto nulla senatus uoluntate imperator ab exercitu, postquam bellum in Germania prospere gesserat, creatus persecutionem in Christianos sextus a Nerone exercuit. 2 Sed continuo, hoc est tertio quam regnabat anno, a Pupieno Aquileiae interfectus et persecutionis et uitae finem fecit. qui maxime propter Christianam Alexandri, cui successerat, et Mameae matris eius familiam persecutionem in sacerdotes et clericos, id est doctores, uel praecipue propter Origenem presbyterum miserat.
3 Anno ab urbe condita DCCCCLXLI Gordianus uicensimus tertius ab Augusto imperator creatus est mansitque in eo annis sex. Nam Pupienus, interfector Maximini, et frater eius Balbinus, qui usurpauerant imperium, in Palatio mox interfecti sunt. 4 Gordianus admodum puer in orientem ad bellum Parthicum profecturus, sicut Eutropius scribit, Iani portas aperuit: quas utrum post Vespasianum et Titum aliquis clauserit, neminem scripsisse memini, cum tamen eas ab ipso Vespasiano post annum apertas Cornelius Tacitus prodat. 5 Igitur Gordianus ingentibus proeliis aduersum Parthos prospere gestis suorum fraude haud longe a Circesso super Euphraten interfectus est. |
| Translation |
1. 987 years after the foundation of the City, Maximin was made the 21st
emperor after Augustus by the army, though the Senate opposed him. After
he had waged a successful war in Germany, he carried out the fifth persecution of Christians after that of Nero. 2. But straightaway, that is to say in the
third year of his reign, he was killed at Aquileia by Pupienus, putting an end
both to his persecutions and his life. He had specifically persecuted priests
and clergymen, that is to say the teachers of doctrine, either because the
family of Alexander whom he had succeeded and Alexander’s mother were
Christians, or because he had a special hatred of the presbyter Origen.
3. 991 years after the foundation of the City, Gordian was made the 22nd
emperor after Augustus and stayed in this office for six years, for Maximin’s
killer, Pupienus, and his brother, Balbinus, who had seized power were
killed soon afterwards in the Palace. 4. Though still a boy, Gordian when
he was about to set off to the east to wage war against the Parthians, opened,
according to Eutropius, the gates of Janus which I cannot recall any writer
saying that anyone had closed after the time of Vespasian and Titus, while Cornelius Tacitus tells us that Vespasian opened them in the second year
of his reign. 5. Gordian, after successfully fighting some great battles
against the Parthians, was treacherously killed by his own men not far from
Circessus on the Euphrates. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 19, 1-5 (Vol. III, pp. 54-5, trans. Fear, pp. 352-3) |
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235 - 238 |
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