Book 26
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It was thus that Andriscus of Adramytium,Cf. xiv. 11, 30. a man born to the lowest condition, raised himself to the title of a Pseudophilippus and added to the Macedonian wars a third, full of danger. It was thus, when the emperor Macrinus was living at Antioch, that Heliogabalus AntoninusCf. Lamprid., Heliog. i. 5, Scr. Hist. Aug. ii. p. 106, note, L.C.L. burst forth from Emesa.A city of Apamene, north of Coelesyria Thus, by the unexpected uprising of Maximinus, AlexanderAlexander Severus; cf. Jul. Cap., Max. 7, 8; and Lamprid., Alex. Sev. 61. was murdered with his mother Mamaea. Thus in Africa the elder Gordian was hurried to the throne, but when he found himself entangled in the terror of coming dangers, ended his life with the noose.Capit., Gord. 16, 2; for his cenotaph, see xxiii. 5, 7, above.
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Thus the dealers in cheap dainties, the palace attendants, or those who had once been such, and former soldiers who had now retired to a more peaceful mode of life, a part unwillingly, others voluntarily, were induced to participate in the uncertainties of this unusual enterprise.I.e. to join the new emperor. But some, thinking that anything was safer than the present condition, secretly left the city and went at rapid pace to the emperor’s camp.
