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Without delay or reflection, he assumed the purple at Aquileia, where he commanded a considerable force; and though his reign lasted only seventeen days, he had time to obtain the sanction of the senate, and to experience a mutiny of the troops.","notes":[{"id":"151","text":"Such is the narrative of the greater part of the older historians; but the number and the variety of his medals seem to require more time, and give probability to the report of Zosimus, who makes him reign some months.—G.","voice":"Gibbon","at":535}],"authorities":["Zosimus"],"alt":29,"wps":51}},{"role":"selected","paragraph":413,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p413","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter XI","short":"Chapter XI","head":"Chapter XI · Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths"},"unit":{"i":412,"v":10,"kind":"p","text":"As soon as he was informed that the great army of the Danube had invested the well-known valor of Aurelian with Imperial power, he sunk under the fame and merit of his rival; and ordering his veins to be opened, prudently withdrew himself from the unequal contest.","notes":[{"id":"16","text":"Zosimus, l. i. p. 42. Pollio (Hist. August. p. 107) allows him virtues, and says, that, like Pertinax, he was killed by the licentious soldiers. According to Dexippus, he died of a disease.","voice":"Gibbon","at":264}],"authorities":["Zosimus"],"alt":24,"wps":47}},{"role":"after","paragraph":414,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p414","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter XI","short":"Chapter XI","head":"Chapter XI · Reign Of Claudius, Defeat Of The Goths"},"unit":{"i":413,"v":10,"kind":"p","text":"The general design of this work will not permit us minutely to relate the actions of every emperor after he ascended the throne, much less to deduce the various fortunes of his private life. We shall only observe, that the father of Aurelian was a peasant of the territory of Sirmium, who occupied a small farm, the property of Aurelius, a rich senator. His warlike son enlisted in the troops as a common soldier, successively rose to the rank of a centurion, a tribune, the præfect of a legion, the inspector of the camp, the general, or, as it was then called, the duke, of a frontier; and at length, during the Gothic war, exercised the important office of commander-in-chief of the cavalry. In every station he distinguished himself by matchless valor, rigid discipline, and successful conduct. He was invested with the consulship by the emperor Valerian, who styles him, in the pompous language of that age, the deliverer of Illyricum, the restorer of Gaul, and the rival of the Scipios. At the recommendation of Valerian, a senator of the highest rank and merit, Ulpius Crinitus, whose blood was derived from the same source as that of Trajan, adopted the Pannonian peasant, gave him his daughter in marriage, and relieved with his ample fortune the honorable poverty which Aurelian had preserved inviolate.","notes":[{"id":"17","text":"Theoclius (as quoted in the Augustan History, p. 211) affirms that in one day he killed with his own hand forty-eight Sarmatians, and in several subsequent engagements nine hundred and fifty. This heroic valor was admired by the soldiers, and celebrated in their rude songs, the burden of which was, mille, mile, mille, occidit.","voice":"Gibbon","at":756},{"id":"18","text":"Acholius (ap. Hist. August. p. 213) describes the ceremony of the adoption, as it was performed at Byzantium, in the presence of the emperor and his great officers.","voice":"Gibbon","at":1313}],"authorities":[],"alt":50,"wps":37}}]}