Roman Emperor Tetricus I
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Roman Emperor Tetricus I - The Soldier Emperor
AD 270 - 273
Gaius Esuvius Tetricus belonged to a family of high distinction in the senate, and had been honored with the consulship. Being Governor of Aqutania at the time when the Usurper Marius died, Tetricus was induced by the persuasions of that extraordinary heroine Victoria (mother of Victorinus senor), to accept the title of Emperor from the Legionaries in Gaul AD 268. Already in great repute for valor, prudence, and good principles, he disarmed envy by his unpretending simplicity, and conciliated general good opinion by the equity of his administration.
His first act of sovereignty was to give the rank of Caesar to his son Tetricus. He next undertook to reduce the revolted city of Autun, and succeeded after a six months' siege. But, although he maintained himself in his Government for more than five years, including the period of Claudius the Second's reign, frequent mutinies amongst his soldiers, who were continually threatening to depose him, rendered his crown insecure and his existence wretched and unsafe.
Disgusted with the slavery of his situation, and anxious to regain tranquility of private life, he applied for Succour to Aurelian, who,on his return from the East, advanced with his victorious army as far as Catalannum, delivered Tetricus from the power of his rebellious troops, and resumed for the Roman Empire, the possessions of those Gallic provinces which the revolt of Postumus had detached from it. In thus surrendering himself, his son, his army, and his imperial authority into the hands of Aurelian, he did not escape the deep humiliation of having to follow the triumphal chariot of that proud conqueror: by who, according to Treb. Pollio, he was afterwards treated with the utmost benevolence, friendship, and confidence.
Among the honors heaped on him by the Emperor, who called him his colleague, was his nomination as Governor of the important province of Lucania. Tetricus died in retirement at a very advanced age, in what year is not known, and, as his coins of consecrations show, he was replaced in rank of divinities—"a remarkable circumstance," observes beauvais, "in the instance of a man who for many years before had renounced the title and scepter of supreme power."
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