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Scriptis iam pluribus libris non historico nec diserto sed pedestri adloquio, ad eam temporum venimus seriem, in qua per annos, quibus Gallienus et Valerianus rem publicam tenuerunt, triginta tyranni occupato Valeriano magnis belli Persici necessitatibus exstiterunt, cum Gallienum non solum viri sed etiam mulieres contemptui haberent, ut suis [2] locis probabitur. sed quoniam tanta obscuritas eorum hominum fuit, qui ex diversis orbis partibus ad imperium convolabant, ut non multa de iis vel dici possint a doctoribus vel requiri, deinde ab omnibus 1 historicis, qui Graece ac Latine scripserunt, ita non- nulli praeter eant ut ut eorum nec 2 nomina frequententur, postremo cum tam varie a plerisque super iis nonnulla sint prodita, in unum eos libellum contuli et quidem brevem, maxime cum vel in Valeriani vel in Gallieni vita pleraque de iis dicta nec repetenda tamen satis constet.
1 The collection actually contains 32 names, of which the last two form a sort of appendix containing two men admittedly not of the time of Gallienus. The author's original plan, according to Gall., xvi. 1; xix. 6; xxi. 1, was to include 20, but as Peter has pointed out (Abh. Sächs. Ges., xxvii. p. 190 f.), this number was raised to that of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens by padding with ten additional names. If we take from the list the names of the two women and the six youths who never held the imperial power, the list is reduced to 22. Of these it may be definitely asserted of Cyriades, Odaenathus, Maeonius and Ballista that they never assumed the purple,
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