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been the laft in it. Pojlumus ( i ) had governed them 
almofl: three years by the appointment of Valerian j 
who writing to them in his favour, among other en- 
comiums there given him, ufes this expreffion, Vimm , 
quern ego prae caeteris ftupeo ( 2 ). He had before been 
governor to his fon Gallienus , and prefered to Aure- 
lian , who was afterwards emperor, on account of his 
mild and gentle difpolition ; as Valerian himfelf inti- 
mates in a letter to Antoninus Gallus the conful, where 
fpeaking of Aurelian he fais, that he was fearful, Ne 
quid etiam erga Jilium Jeverius , fi quid etiam ille fe- 
ci ffet ( ut eft natura pronus ad ludicra ) J'aevius, cogi - 
taret (3). 
Gallienus was in Gaul, when he heard of the mif- 
fortune, which had befallen his father ; but departed 
foon after, leaving behind him Saloninus his elder 
fon, whom he created CaeJ'ar and placed with him 
a tribune, by Zofimus called Silvanus (4,), but Zona - 
ras calls him Alba?ius (5). This officer being jealous 
of Pojlumus, made it his bufinefs to difguft him, break 
his meafures, and render him fulpedted. Thus when 
Pojlumus, after an obftinate ingagement, had intirely 
defeated feveral detachments of the BruSleri and Cha- 
?navi, people of Germany , who had paffied the Rhine , 
and plundered the neighbouring country, he gave the 
fpoil to his foldiers. But Silvanus wrote him a fevere 
letter, and in the name of Saloninus ordered him to 
deliver 
(1) M. Cassjvs Latienvs Postvmvs. 
(2) Treb. Pallia, in Poftumo. 
(3) Flav. Vopifcus , in Aureliano, 
(4) Lib. 1. 
(5) Tom. 1. pag. 632. 
