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plainly exprefs the happinefs, which the Gauls in- 
joyed under his aufpicious government} iuch as 
Vbertas, Laetitia, Felicitas pvblica, and 
the like (i). 
ViBorina did not long furvive the advancement of 
Tetricus to the empire of the Gauls • but whether 
fhe died a natural death, or was killed, hiftorians have 
left quite uncertain (2). However, the arts of in- 
triguing and caballing, which fhe had carried to the 
greateft hight in Gaul , did not die with her } but 
gave Tetricus a continual uneafinefs, either to detect 
or fupprefs them. And therefore upon the return of 
Aurelian from the conqueft of Zenobia , whom with 
her two fons he fent to Rome in great pomp } when 
Tetricus could no longer bear with the infolence of 
his own foldiers, he wrote a letter to him, in which 
he ufed this ex predion : Eripe me bis, inviBe, ma- 
lts (3). And^afterwards upon the arrival of Aurelian 
near Chalons in Campania, drawing out his forces, 
as if he defigned an ingagement, he furrendered to 
him both himfelf and his whole army. By this 
means Aurelian being then, as the hiftorian expreffes 
it, princeps totius orbis (4), celebrated a mod: fplen- 
did triumph at Rome } in which not only Zenobia 
with her two fons, but likewife Tetricus and his fon, 
were expofed to public view among the other cap- 
tives, to denote the fubje&ion both of the eaftern and 
weftern empire. 
Some 
( 1 ) Cabinet du Roy. 
{2) Treb. Pollio , in Victorina. 
(3) Idem , in Tetrico feniore. Eutropius , Lib. ix. c, 19. 
(4) Flav, Vopifcusj in Aureliano. 
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