c DIOCLESIAN. 
and, at the fame time, affume no indepzndent authority and 
aarti ae ree is vices alfo Diocletian was well apprized, 
an w to render them ufeful. Infenfible to pity, 
. ~~ fearel of Sanadenees he was the ready inftrument of 
et 
i 
by his feafonable interceffion, faved the remaining few, whom 
he had never defigned to punith, cenfured the feverity of his 
flern colleague, and enjoyed the comparifon of a gold :n and 
an iron tages —_ are ag eee applied to their o>pofite 
max government. Notwithflanding the differ-nce of 
tere pein ee . te two emperors maintain Fd on the throne, 
that friend P which they had contraéted in a private fta- 
tion ughty tu Ha fpirit of Maximian, fo fee 
afterwards to era f public peace, was accuftom 
to refpect the genius of Divclefian, and confeffed the — 
cendant of reafon over brutal apna from a motive ei- 
ther of pride or fuperftition, the two emperors affumed the 
titles, the one of Jovius, the other of Ale though Cre- 
vier fays, that thefe were names aed conferred on the 
afare, — and eee ntiu 
diated Matin, prepared to 
aa charged his colleague with 
nite the choice that had beer 
Dioclefian himfelf, 
ion i 
a, rma 
e he Sarmaticus, t ongi, the 
Quadi, the Carpians, and the Goths, in Pannonia and th 
neighbourin fter thefe exploits of the 
wo emperors for ces they obtained a triumph, 
n, A.D. 290. In order to re- 
pair thither, they croffed, in ie pee of winter, one of 
them the Julian Alps in his way from Pannonia, and the 
which 
— peace 
new dangers prefented themfelves, and therefore the two 
ria aed determined to ftrengthen their power and intereft, 
onferring on two generals of approved merit, with the 
ewe title of Czfars, an equal fhare of the fovereign au- 
tho eb is event took place, Galerius, 
wae sae Armentarius, from hi 
had acai » WE e 
lege fnveded with the fecond honours a ae imperial pur- 
he two sd ha in order the better to cement th 
union between them and their Cefars, obliged them to repu- 
diate their wives, and ally themfelves to the tmperial families. 
ee iok Conftantius married Theodora, daughter-in- 
w to Maximiar ; d Valeria, the daugh- 
Thete oe princes diftributed among 
themfelves the wide extent of the Roman empire. The de- 
a 
o 
Illyrian Leda 5 Italy and 
ed as the department of Maximian ; and 
for his peculiar portion, Diocletian feted ice Egypt, 
and the rich countries of Afia. Evcry one was fovereign 
within his own jurifdi€tion, but their united authority ex. 
tended over the whole monarchy; and each of them was 
prepared to affit his colleagues with his counfels er prefence, 
After the adoption of the two Cielars, the emperors 
themfelves, retiring to a lefs laborious fcene of a€tion, de- 
Mati _ their adopted fons the defence of the pana and 
the Rhine. The vigilant Galerius was never r t 
tated the conduG of Ha and diftributed them among 
the provincials, and thofe diftri€ts were affigned them, which 
of war. 
ia’) 
< 
rms 
expedient to enrol them in the ae fervice. 
Cefars were exerciling their valour on the banks of the Rhine 
and Danube, the emperors were called to the fouthern con- 
fines of che Roman w an Frem the Nile to mount Atlas, 
fAfrica was in arms 
their incurfions into Upper Egypt. 
elie no particular. detail of the pee of Maximian in 
we eee rn Africa, we know in general that he vanquifhed the 
fierceft barbarians of Mauritania. Divclefian undertook the 
Alexandria, occupied by Achilieus, and having 
crimes of ie beled he provide 
po many wife eee which were sar a 
by the Pe rfian war. It commenced A.D. 266; at which 
time Dioclefian fixed his ‘hati 
from whence ehe p 
tions. 
after two battles of various aa doubt ful fuccefs, he was to- 
tally defeated in a third engagement, the difafter of which 
was attributed to his own rafhnefs in prefuming, with an in- 
confiderable body of troops, to attack the reas 
of the Perfians. ioch, ean 
received him, not with endthip, 
but with the indignation The 
haughtieft of men, etieds in his purple, but baeeeee by ae 
fenfe of his misfortune and er was obliged to follow 
the emperor’s chariot above a mile on foot, and to exhibit, 
before the whole court, the (eae of his difgrace. Diocle- 
fian, however, having indulged his refentment, and afferted 
the majefty of fupreme power, allowe alerius, at his 
earneft entreaty, to retrieve his own honour, as well as that of 
vided for him, 
the Roman na ftrong force was provi 
and at the he chofen of 25 
pafled the Euphrates, and by his circumf{peQion and valour 
general confufion a arnage, Narfes, the wounded, mo- 
cee at i eles the deferts o Media, and left behind him 
an immenfe booty to the conqueror. Several of his wives, 
his fitters, and ebildren, were in the number of the capt; ves, 
who were honourably protected from violence and rapine, con- 
4P2 veyed 
