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VALERIANUS, PUBLIUS LICINIUS , Roman emperor from A.D. 2J3 to 260. He was of noble family, and in 238 was princeps senalas. In 251, when Decius revived the censorship with legislative and executive powers so extensive that it practically embraced the civil authority of the emperor, Valerian was chosen censor by the senate. After the death of Decius Valerian retained the confidence of his successor, Trebonianus Gallus, who sent him to fetch troops to quell the rebellion of Aemilianus, governor of Moesia and Pannonia. The soldiers in Raetia, however, pro-claimed Valerian emperor; and marching slowly towards Rome he found both his rivals dead, slain by their own soldiers. Valerian was about sixty-three years of age, and had scarcely the vigour to deal with the enemies that threatened every frontier of the empire. Taking his son Gallienus as colleague, he left the wars in Europe to his direction, under which matters went from bad to worse and the whole West fell into disorder. Valerian chose
East
Asia
Minor . Valerian recovered Antioch, fought in Mesopotamia
trophy in the chief
See Trebellius Pollio, Life of Valerian (frags.); Aurelius Victor , Caesares, 32; Eutropius ix. 6; Ammianus Marcellinus
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