At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Balbinus ( or, less frequently, year 890 Ab urbe condita ).

In periods of joint rule, at first only one of the emperors bore this title, as it occurred for the first time during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, when only Marcus Aurelius was pontifex maximus, but later two pontifices maximi could serve together, as Pupienus and Balbinus did in 238 — a situation unthinkable in Republican times.

Having embraced the cause of Gordian, the senate was obliged to continue the revolt against Maximinus, and appointed Pupienus and Balbinus, as joint emperors.

Pupienus was sent at the head of an army to face Maximinus, and Balbinus stayed in Rome.

Balbinus (; c. 165 – 29 July 238 ), was Roman Emperor with Pupienus for three months in 238, the Year of the Six Emperors.

Balbinus was an admired orator, a poet of distinguished fame, and a wise magistrate, who had exercised with innocence and applause the civil jurisdiction in almost all the interior provinces of the empire.

(...) The two colleagues and Balbinus had both been consul ( Balbinus had twice enjoyed that honourable office ), both had been named among the twenty lieutenants of the senate ; and, since the one was sixty and the other seventy-four years old, they had both attained the full maturity of age and experience.

Balbinus was probably in his early seventies: his qualifications for rule are unknown, except presumably that he was a senior senator, rich and well-connected.

Pupienus (; born c. 165 / 170 – 29 July 238 ), also known as Pupienus Maximus, was Roman Emperor with Balbinus for three months in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors.

the mind of Maximus was formed in a rougher mould that of Balbinus.

His victories over the Sarmatians and the Germans, the austerity of his life, and the rigid impartiality of his justice whilst he was prefect of the city, commanded the esteem of a people whose affections were engaged in favour of the more amiable Balbinus.

Leaving his senior colleague Balbinus in charge of the civil administration at Rome, sometime during late April Pupienus marched to Ravenna, where he oversaw the campaign against Maximinus, recruiting German auxiliary troops who had served under him whilst he was in Germania ; after the latter was assassinated by his soldiers just outside Aquileia he despatched both Maximinus's troops and his own back to their provinces ( along with a considerable donative ) and returned to Rome with his newly acquired German bodyguard.

Balbinus, believing that this news was part of a plot by Pupienus to have him assassinated, refused, and the two began to argue just as the Praetorians burst into the room.

The legend is especially indebted for its growth to the Jesuit historiographer Boleslaus Balbinus the " Bohemian Pliny ,", whose Vita beati Joannis Nepomuceni martyris was published in Prague, 1670.

I had a personal share in some of these events during my imperial and public service .” ( 1. 2. 5 ) It has been suggested that Herodian was a senator due to his knowledge of the senatus consultum tacitum, which was a secret declaration by the senate when they chose the emperors Pupienus and Balbinus.

He was also related to consuls Julius Frontinus and P. Coelius Balbinus Vibullus Pius and possibly to later emperor Balbinus.

Not much is known about Balbinus before his elevation to emperor.

* 238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.

* 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus.

* April 22 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Senate outlaws Maximinus for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.

* July 29 – The Praetorian Guard stormed the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus.

Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus and Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus ( both died on July 29, 238 ) were two Roman co-emperors elected by the Roman senate on April 22, 238 after the failure of Gordian I and Gordian II to defeat the usurper Maximinus Thrax.

Balbinus had an equal share of consular status and political clout.

Without other candidates in view, the senate elected Pupienus and Balbinus joint emperors.

Balbinus had not managed to control the situation and the city had burned in a fire resulting in mutiny.

These two are defeated by an ally of Thrax, and the Senate appoints Balbinus and Pupienus as co-emperors.

Sestertius of Balbinus.

It has been conjectured that he descended from Publius Coelius Balbinus Vibullius Pius, the consul ordinarius of 136 or 137, and wife Aquilia.

According to Herodian he had governed provinces, but the list of seven provinces given in the Historia Augusta, as well as the statement that Balbinus had been both Proconsul of Asia and of Africa, are likely to be mere invention.

When the Gordians were proclaimed Emperors in Africa, the Senate appointed a committee of twenty men, including Balbinus, to co-ordinate operations against Maximinus Thrax.

On the news of the Gordians ' defeat, the Senate met in closed session in the Temple of Jupiter and voted Pupienus and Balbinus as co-emperors, though they were soon forced to co-opt the child Gordian III as a colleague.

While Pupienus marched to Ravenna, where he oversaw the campaign against Maximinus, Balbinus remained in Rome, but failed to keep public order.

When presumably holding the title of Emperor, Balbinus had a marble sarcophagus made for himself and his wife ( whose name is unknown ).

Although in accounts of their joint reign Balbinus is emphasized as the civilian as against Pupienus the military man, on the side of the sarcophagus he is portrayed in full military dress.

Although the Prague metropolitan chapter did not accept the biography dedicated to it, " as being frequently destitute of historical foundation and erroneous, a bungling work of mythological rhetoric ", Balbinus stuck to it.

Balbinus wrote also De archiepiscopis Bohemiae (" The Archbishops of Bohemia ", Prague, 1682 ) and Bohemia Sancta, sive de sanctis Bohemiae, Moraviae, Silesiae, Lusatiae (" Sacred Bohemia, or the Saints of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Lusatia " Prague, 1682 ).

The sources suggest that after Pupienus's victorious return following Maximinus ' death, Balbinus suspected Pupienus of wanting to supplant him, and they were soon living in different parts of the Imperial palace, where they were later assassinated by disaffected elements of the Praetorian Guard.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.