Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric: AD 289 – 307.

Valignano died in Macau during January of 1606 and one of his Jesuit admirers noted in his Panegyric: " In we lament not only our former visitor and father, but, as some would have it, the apostle of Japan.

Two books about the Procession of the Holy Ghost ; another one " against the insertion of the Filioque in the Creed "; two books and a letter about " Purgatory "; various sermons and speeches ; a Panegyric of Marcus Eugenicus ( in 1447 ), etc.

Visconti's death from an illness did more than lift his siege of Florence ; it sparked Leonardo Bruni to write his Panegyric to the City of Florence ( c. 1403 ), in which he quoted Tacitus ( Histories, 1. 1 ) to buttress his republican theory that monarchy was inimical to virtue, nobility, and ( especially ) genius.

Among the early writings of Abbadie were four Sermons sur divers Textes de l ' Ecriture, 1680 ; Réflexions sur la Présence réelle du Corps de Jésus-Christ dans l ' Eucharistie, 1685 ; and two highly adulatory addresses on persons in high stations, entitled respectively Panégyrique de Monseigneur l ' Electeur de Brandebourg, 1684 ; and Panégyrique de Marie Stuart, Reine d ' Angleterre, d ' Ecosse, de France, et d ' Irlande, de glorieuse et immortelle mémoire, décédée à Kensington le 28 décembre 1694, 1695, also published in England as A Panegyric on our late Sovereign Lady, 1695.

* Debord, Guy Panegyric Verso ; ( 1991 ) ISBN 0-86091-347-3

; " The Panegyric of Alexander Valignano, S. J.

In the West, Maximian lost the fleet built in 288 and 289, probably in the early spring of 290.

To strengthen the ties between the emperor and his powerful military servant, in 289 Constantius divorced his wife ( or concubine ) Helena, and married the emperor Maximian ’ s daughter, Theodora.

Maximian failed to oust Carausius, and his invasion fleet was destroyed by storms in 289 or 290.

The panegyrist of 289, after comparing his actions to Scipio Africanus ' victories over Hannibal during the Second Punic War, suggested that Maximian has never heard of them.

Maximian prepared an invasion of Britain in 288 or 289 to oust him, but it failed.

Galerius's sister gave birth to a son, Maximinus Daia, and Galerius's daughter by his first wife, Valeria Maximilla, married Maxentius, son of Maximian by his wife Eutropia ; Eutropia's first marriage ( to Afranius Hannibalianus ) had produced a daughter, Theodora, who became the second wife of Constantius Chlorus (" the Pale ") in 289 ( adopted by Maximian on March 1, 293 ).

Julius Constantius was born after 289, the son of Constantius Chlorus and his wife Theodora, adoptive daughter of emperor Maximian.

The text of this is extant, preserved in the Panegyrici Latini ; it is there followed by two panegyrics from three quarters of a century earlier, addressed to the Emperor Maximian ( the first delivered in 289 and the second in 290 or 291 ).

According to Sebastian's 5th-century Acta Sanctorum, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, and the briefer account in Legenda Aurea, he was a man of Gallia Narbonensis who was taught in Milan and appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian and Maximian, who were unaware that he was a Christian.

The first mention of the Tervingi occurs in a eulogy of the emperor Maximian ( 285 – 305 ), delivered in or shortly after 291 ( perhaps at Trier on 20 April 292 ) and traditionally ascribed to Claudius Mamertinus, which says that the " Tervingi, another division of the Goths " ( Tervingi pars alia Gothorum ) joined with the Taifali to attack the Vandals and Gepidae.

* Claudius Eusthenius, secretary to the emperor Diocletian, he wrote lives of Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius.

* Claudius Mamertinus, the author of two panegyrics in honor of the emperor Maximian ; the surname Mamertinus is uncertain.

The trove included coins of Claudius II Gothicus ( 268-270 CE ), Diocletian ( 284-305 CE ), Maximian ( 285-286 CE ), Constantius ( 305-306 CE ), Constantine ( 306-337 CE ).

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

Maximian's swift appointment by Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historian Timothy Barnes to mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles were pre-agreed and that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against Carinus ( r. 283 – 285 ) but there is no direct evidence for this.

He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303.

Catholic tradition states that Erasmus of Formiae, also known as Saint Elmo, was finally executed by disembowelment in about A. D. 303, after he had suffered extreme forms of torture during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian and Maximian.

Before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Emperor Constantine I, Diocletian and Maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 that mandated monogamy was the only form of legal marital configuration, as had traditionally been the case in classical Greece and Rome themselves.

Eugene along with the martyrs Saint Candidus, Valerian and Aquila was persecuted " during the reign of Diocletian ( 284-305 ) and Maximian ( 305-311 )" under the military leader Lycius.

The church was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in 527, when Ravenna was under the rule of the Ostrogoths and completed by the 27th Bishop of Ravenna, Maximian in 546 during the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna.

After the bagaudae came to the full attention of the central authorities about 284, re-establishment of the settled social order was swift and severe: the peasant insurgents were crushed in 286 by the Caesar Maximian and his subordinate Carausius, under the aegis of the Augustus Diocletian.

In 286, he set himself up as emperor in Britain and northern Gaul and remained in power whilst Maximian dealt with uprisings elsewhere.

After acceding to power in 284, Diocletian decide to share the load of government with his friend Maximian, whom he appointed co-regent in 286.

* 286 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

* 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.

* 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.

* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian.

* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.

* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.

* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.

:: Occidens Maximian ( 285 – 293 )

:: Italia et Africa Maximian ( 285 – 305 )

:: Italia Maximian ( 307 – 310 )

* April 1 – Emperor Diocletian elevates his friend Maximian to co-emperor, giving him the title Augustus.

* March 10 – Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

* March 1 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars.

* July 21 or July 25 – Diocletian appoints his fellow-officer Maximian to the office of Caesar, or junior co-emperor.

* October 28 – Maxentius, son of the former Western Emperor Maximian, joins a revolt by the Praetorian Guard in Rome, and is proclaimed Emperor.

* April – Roman usurper Maxentius banishes his father, Maximian, who flees to the court of Constantine the Great in Augusta Treverorum ( modern Trier ).

* March 31 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great marries Fausta Flavia Maxima, the daughter of the retired co-emperor Maximian.

Maximian (; c. 250 – c. July 310 ) was Roman Emperor from 286 to 305.

Maximian joined the army, serving with Diocletian under the emperors Aurelian ( r. 270 – 275 ) and Probus ( r. 276 – 282 ).