* Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire, is assassinated by Attitianus, reportedly for reasons of personal revenge.

* Aureolus, charged with defending Italy, defeats Victorinus ( co-emperor of Gaul ), is proclaimed emperor by his troops, and begins his march on Rome.

It is not clear if she created it or if it was already part of the Aeolic tradition ; according to Marius Victorinus ( Ars grammatica 6. 161 Keil ), it was invented by Alcaeus but then used more frequently by, and so more strongly associated with, Sappho.

Victorinus is murdered and his soldiers proclaim Tetricus I emperor

The representation is not realistic, but standardized and stereotypical and is very similar to that of the later coins of the " Gallic Emperor " Victorinus ( 269-271 AD ) and the earliest of Tetricus I, the last " Gallic Emperor " ( 271-274 ).

Given what is known of the chronology of the ‘ Gallic Empire ’ his bid for Empire is most probably associated with the period of confusion following the officers ’ coup against the ‘ Gallic Emperor ’, Victorinus, early in 271.

The men who murdered Victorinus seem to have had no political agenda and it is not surprising that there should have been period of confusion after his death.

The most likely interpretation of the evidence of the coins is that Domitianus was involved in the officer coup that overthrew Victorinus and managed to secure temporary control of one of the ' Gallic ' mints.

A second possibility is that he was defeated by Placidianus, a general loyal to Aurelian who had been stationed to guard the lower Rhone valley during Victorinus ' assault on Autun in 270.

Victorinus is listed among the Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta.

At Clermont he is said to have converted the senator St. Cassius and the pagan priest St. Victorinus, to have sent St. Sirenatus ( Cerneuf ) to Thiers, St. Marius to Salers, Sts.

Saint Severinus of Noricum is not to be confused with Severinus of Septempeda, the brother of Saint Victorinus of Camerino, and a bishop of Naples, whose feast day is celebrated on the same day, January 8.

Victorinus is the recorded name of a vicarius of Roman Britain probably serving between 395 and 406.

Victorinus wrote a brief treatise De Definitionibus, that is, On Definition, which lists and discusses the various types of definitions utilized by rhetoricians and philosopher, recommending the " substantial definitions " proferred by the latter ( prior to the late 19th century this work was ascribed to Boethius.

Victorinus ' manual of prosody, in four books, taken almost literally from the work of Aelius Aphthonius, is extant.

Victorinus noted, " Since God is the cause of being, it can be said in a certain sense, that God truly is ( vere ων ), but this expression merely means that being is in God as an effect is in an eminent cause, which contains it though being superior to it.

This matter is obscure, but several interesting theories have been made, including a spectacular and elaborate, though doubtful, one by Pierre Hadot in his work " Porphyry and Victorinus ".

A Bishop of Poetovio ( modern Ptuj in Slovenia ; ) in Pannonia, Victorinus is also known as Victorinus Petavionensis, Poetovionensis or Victorinus of Ptuj.

Now being emperor of the Gauls, Victorinus was soon to be in a precarious position, for the Spanish provinces had deserted the Gallic Empire and declared their loyalty to Claudius, while in southern France, Placidianus had captured Grenoble.

After engineering the death of Marius, Victorinus was declared emperor by the troops located at Augusta Treverorum in the fall of 269.

In April 1462 the latter restored the holy crown for 60, 000 ducats and was allowed to retain certain Hungarian counties with the title of king ; in return for which concessions, extorted from Matthias by the necessity of coping with a simultaneous rebellion of the Magyar noble in league with Poděbrady's son Victorinus, the emperor recognized Matthias as the actual sovereign of Hungary.

Another vexillatio was present in the army of the emperor of the Gallic Empire Victorinus: this emperor, in fact, issued a gold coin celebrating the legion and its emblem.

Victorinus proclaimed emperor in Gaul and Britain.

Marcus Piavonius Victorinus was emperor of the secessionist Gallic Empire from 269 to 271, following the brief reign of Marius.

The ( dubious ) Historia Augusta equally has a short description of Victorinus Junior, allegedly the son of Victorinus, who was appointed emperor by his family the day his father was murdered, and would have been killed immediately afterwards by the troops.

Victorinus ' mother, Victoria, located at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, managed to keep control of the political situation after her son ’ s death ; through her influence ( and a large amount of money ), she bribed the army to declare the absent Tetricus emperor.

Victorinus ' conversion, even though criticized by some scholars ( e. g. Ernst Benz, and repeated by other ) as purely intellectualist, was undoubtedly sincere, as events connected with the revival of paganism initiated by the last pagan emperor, Julian the Philosopher ( dubbed " Julian the Apostate " by Christians ) came to show.

* Victorinus, Emperor of the Gallic Empire

In the turmoil following the defeat of Valerian, the XIIII Gemina supported usurper Regalianus against Emperor Gallienus ( 260 ), then Gallienus against Postumus of the Gallic empire ( earning the title VI Pia VI Fidelis —" six times faithful, six times loyal "), and, after Gallienus ' death, Gallic Emperor Victorinus ( 269 – 271 ).

Hailing from Gaul, Victorinus was born to a family of great wealth, and was a soldier under Postumus, the first of the so-called Gallic emperors.

Gaius Pius Esuvius Tetricus was Emperor of the Gallic Empire ( Imperium Galliarum ) from 271 to 274, following the murder of Victorinus.

** 271, Battle of Placentia, Battle of Fano, Battle of Pavia, Destruction of Alemannic army, Assassination of Gallic Emperor Victorinus, Emperor Aurelian repelled another Gothic invasion but abandoned the province of Dacia north of Danube forever, Construction of the Aurelian Wall begins.

* Victoria ( Gallic Empire ) ( died 271 ), mother of Gallic Emperor Victorinus

Tetricus fought off Germanic barbarians who had begun ravaging Gaul after the death of Victorinus, and was able to re-take Gallia Aquitania and western Gallia Narbonensis while Roman Emperor Aurelian was engaging Queen Zenobia's Palmyrene Empire in the east.

The presence of Placidianus inspired the city of Augustodunum Haeduorum to abandon Victorinus and declare its intention to rejoin the Roman Empire.

As a result, the city went through a siege, lasting many weeks, until it was finally captured and sacked by Victorinus.

Victorinus spent most of his reign dealing with insurgencies and attempting to recover the Gaulish territories taken by Claudius Gothicus.

Victorinus differentiated between the Logos interior to God and the Logos related to the world by creation and salvation.

He wrote a metrical handbook De Metris, in four books, which was added to the Ars Grammatica of Gaius Marius Victorinus sometime before 400, but not by Victorinus himself.

Victorinus was murdered at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium in early 271 by Attitianus, one of his officers, whose wife Victorinus had supposedly seduced.

Aristotle's original Greek text, Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας ( Peri Hermeneias ) was translated into the Latin " De Interpretatione " by Marius Victorinus, at Rome, in the 4th century.

* Verses of Santolius Victorinus, prefixed to ‘ The compleat Gard ' ner of de la Quintinye, made English by John Evelyn ,’ 1693.

Victorinus was African by birth and experienced the height of his career during the reign of Constantius II.