Valerian had arrived too late to save …
Years: 253 - 253
September
Valerian had arrived too late to save Gallus but he has managed to avenge and succeed him as emperor, proclaimed so by the Raetian soldiers.
Upon his arrival in Rome in September, the Senate quickly acknowledges him, not only for fear of reprisals, but also because he is one of their own.
Recognizing that it is no longer possible for one man to run the vast military operations needed to defend the empire, Valerian in 253 appoints, and the Senate confirms, his thirty-something son Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus to rule the West.
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- Classical antiquity
- Roman Age Optimum
- Crisis of the Third Century (Roman Civil “War” of 235-84)
- Roman Gothic War, Second
