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Trebonianus Gallus (251-253) Soldiers
Aemilian (253)
Gallienus (253-268)
Postumus (260-268)
Aurelian (270-275)
Florian (276)
Probus (276-282)
Carus (282-283)
Carinus (283-285)
Numerian (283-284)
Constans I (337-350)
Gratian (367-383)
Valentinian II (375-392)
Libius Severus (461-465)
Julius Nepos (474-475)
Soldiers
Prefect Heraclianus; aided by generals Marcianus, Claudius
Gothicus and Aurelian
Soldiers refused permission to sack city of Moguntiacum
Thracian Praetorian officer, Mucapor; and other officers
Soldiers
Soldiers
Probably the Praetorian Prefect, Arrius Aper, although lightning was
listed as the official cause
One of his imperial officers
Arrius Aper
Assassin sent by Magnentius
Officer named Andragathius
Magister militum Arbogast (or possibly by suicide)
Probably by his own men
Two retainers, Ovida and Viator, with complicity of Glycerius
See also FRUMENTARII and SPECULATORES
¤ ASSEMBLY See TRIBUTAL ASSEMBLY.
¤ ASTROLOGY The science given birth in Babylonian Chaldaea and passed on to the Hellenic world. For
the Romans, who would adopt virtually anything cultic or of a religious nature, astrology became
tremendously popular. During the Empire astrology was favored and practiced by all classes of Romans. Its
appeal stretched from intellectuals, the Stoics and the nobility, to the provinces, and even to the
common workers and peasants.
The Eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great and the subsequent creation of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic
kingdoms ensured enough Asian influences that the art of astrology was scientifically explored. The
traditions of stellar influences were accepted by the Ptolemies, and Alexandria, in Egypt, was a center of
astrological divination.
Varro (116-27 B.C.) was among the first of the Romans to express publicly an interest, but the city itself
was at first reluctant to open its gates to such a foreign practice. In 139 B.C., the praetor of Rome
expelled all astrologers. By the era of Nigidius Figulus (mid-lst century B.C.), the Pythagorean
philosopher and writer (the era of Pompey as well), the astrology movement found support among
Posidonius and the Stoicists.
The Stoics gave to astrology precisely the intellectual basis that appealed to the Roman people. A divine
linking of the earth with the stars, and a cosmological movement connecting all living things, bore
similarities that forged a natural bond between them. The astrologers identified themselves with the
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