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•older etur, Jiipra modum laetatus eft ( 1 ). But altho 
this pretended philofopher ufed no indeavours to pro- 
cure his father’s releafe, he could not, as Mr. de 
Boze thinks, free himfelf from fome remorfes of con- 
lcience on that account ; and therefore occasioned a 
falfe report to be given out concerning his death, and 
divine honors to be confered on him, that he might 
be no longer talked of ( 2 ). The Perfians in the mean 
while, attentive to what palled at Rome, indeavoured 
to render Valerian daily a miferable ipedtacle ; ftript 
of his imperial ornaments, loaded with chains, and 
expofed to that contempt, that Sapor made a foot- 
lfool of his neck, whenever he mounted his horfe (3) ; 
in which deplorable Rate he continued the remainder 
of his life. 
As difdain and refentment often fucceed murmurs, 
the barbarous nations eaiily threw off the yoke, 
which fear had impofed on them ; the moft fubmif- 
five provinces thought it a difgrace to obey Gallienus 
any longer ; and the armies in moft of the Roman 
territories chofe themfelves emperors, many of whom 
thro emulation foon destroyed one another. Trebel- 
lius Pollio has given a Short hiftory of them in a con- 
tinued feries ; whom for the fake of a round number 
he calls the Thirty tyrants, as not having been ac- 
knowledged by the fenate. 
The Gauls were in hopes, either not to have im- 
barked in this general con fpi racy, or however to have 
been * (*) 
(1) Trebell. Pollio, Gallieni duo. 
(*) Ibidem. 
(3) Lattant. De morte perfccut. cap. 1. Aurel. Viftor, Epi- 
tome, c. 32. P. Orofius, Lie. vii. c. 22. 
