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Pollio fais three (i). Tho Mr. de Boze juftly ob- 
ferves, that neither of thefe accounts agrees with the 
number and variety of his medals, which feem to re- 
quire more months ; for they equal thofe of his pre- 
deceffor Vidlorinus, who reigned three years, from 
the time of his being an affociate with Poftumus in 
the empire. Befides, fome of his medals appear to 
have been ftruck on the account of victories gained 
by his lieutenants in that part of Britain , which was 
fubjedt to the emperors of Gaul ; the truth of which 
victories is confirmed by other monuments and in- 
fcriptions found in that country (2), which feems 
no ways confident with fo fhort a reign. From 
whence he thinks it reafonable to allow him four or 
five months, to be reckoned from September or Oc- 
tober 267, to the end of January or February 268. 
His fucceffor Tetricus (3), the principal fubjedt 
of this difcourfe, was a fenator, had difcharged the 
office of conful, fucceffively governed almoft all the 
Gallic provinces, and was then prefedt of both the 
Acquit aim (4). Fie was related to Vidlorina, who 
caufed him to be declared emperor in his abfence, 
and the title of Caefar to be given to his fon. And 
being folemnly invefted with the imperial dignity at 
Bordeaux , he was acknowledged, as Po/lmnus had 
been before him, by all the Gauls , as likewife part 
of Spain and Britain. The time of his advance- 
ment 
( 1 ) In Mario. 
(2) Gul. Alalmcsburienfn , De rebus geftis Reg. Angl. Lib. II. 
Camden. Britannia, p. 641. edit. 1607. 
(3) Pvn. Pivesvs Tetricvs. * 
(4) Treb. Pellioy in Tetrico feniore. 
