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But this felicity did not long continue ; for the Ger- 
mans and their confederates, whom he had defeated 
near Cologn , inftigated by Lollia?ius (or rather L. 
Aeltanus ) who had been raifed to oppofe him, made 
a new eruption on the fide of Mayence ; where he 
again defeated them, drove them into the town, and 
fo ftraitened them,, that they offered to furrender. 
Pojlumus gave his confent, but the army would not; 
and rather than lofe the plunder of a fingle town, 
facrificed their general, whom they had themfelves 
advanced to the imperial dignity. 
Mr. de Boze places the death of Pojlumus in the 
fpring of the year 267, being the feventh of his reign, 
and about the feventieth of his age. And his fon of 
the fame name, who is fometimes joined with him 
upon medals, appears to have lived near forty years. 
Valerian had given him the government of the Vo- 
contii , a people in Dauphiny , at the fame time that 
he fent his father to command in Belgic Gaul. And 
he was fo confiderable an orator, that fome have 
afcribed to him the nineteen Declamations , which 
others affign to Quintilian , the grandfather of him, 
whofe excellent treatife intitled, Injiitutiones Oratoriae , 
are yet preferved, and to which thofe Declamations 
are ufually fubjoined (1). Prebellius Pollio fais, that 
both the Poftumi were killed in the fedition at May - 
ence . But Mr. de Boze doubts the truth of this, and 
thinks the credit of fo inaccurate a hifiorian, who 
miftakes even in their name, which he always writes 
R PoJlhumiuSj 
(1 )Treb. Pollio , in Poftumo juniore. Berchil Adverf. Lib. lviii, 
c. 14. Vojf. Inftit. Orat. Lib. 1. c. xi. 
