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MARIMINUS [MAxnIIN], GALERIUS VALERIUS

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 925 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MARIMINUS [MAxnIIN], GALERIUS VALERIUS , Roman emperor from A.D. 308 to 314, was originally an Illyrian shepherd named Daia. He rose to high distinction after he had joined the army, and in 305 he was raised by his uncle, Galerius, to the rank of Caesar, with the government of Syria and
Egypt
 . In 308, after the
elevation
  of Licinius, he insisted on receiving the title of
Augustus
 ; on the death of Galerius, in 311, he succeeded to the supreme command of the provinces of
Asia
 , and when Licinius and Constantine began to make common cause with one another Maximinus entered into a
secret
  alliance with
Maxentius
 . He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, sustained a crushing defeat in the neighbourhood of
Heraclea
  Pontica on the 3oth of April, and fled, first to
Nicomedia
  and afterwards to Tarsus, where he died in August following. His death was variously ascribed " to despair, to poison, and to the divine justice." Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius, but it is probable that he has been judged too harshly.
See MAXEN11CS; Zosimus ii. 8; Aurelius
Victor
 , Epit. 40.


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