nity '. 7 Hist. August. p. lo 3. There are some trilling difference: concerning the circumstances of the last defeat and death ofAurcolus.. 3 Aurelius Victor in Gallien. The people loudly prayed for the damnation of Gallienus. The senate decreed that his relations And servants should be thrown down headlong from the Gemonian hairs. An obnoxious officer of the revenue had his eyes torn out 'him under examination. A B 4- Such ' at his feet, and complained that a general of the late emperor had obtained an arbitrary grant of her patrimony. This general was Claudius himself, who had not entirely escaped the contagion of the times. The emperor blushed at the reproach, but deserved the confidence which she had reposed in his equity. The confession of his 'fault was accompanied with immediate and ample 9 Zonaras, l. xiirp. 137. -. military |