Trebellianus

 ( 260s Deaths ) 

Trebellianus (d. 260–268) was a Roman usurper listed among the thirty tyrants in the Historia Augusta. Modern historians consider this figure a character invented by the author of Historia, whose traditional name was Augustan History.

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Description According to Historia, Trebellianus was a robber, who called his castle in the fastnesses of the mountains the Palatium (as the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill, in Rome), established a mint, and gave himself the title of Roman emperor. But having been tempted to quit his stronghold and descend into the plain, he was there encountered and slain by Causisoleus, an Roman Egypt, one of the generals of Gallienus ( dux Gallieni), brother of Aurelius Theodotus who had defeated Mussius Aemilianus.

Trebellianus is also cited by Eutropius ( Breviarium, ix.8). The passage is considered a later interpolation, or an error for "Regalianus" — and in fact several editions of Eutropius amend the text with Regalianus. In the latter case, it is possible that this passage gave inspiration to the author of Historia for its Trebellianus.

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See also

• Trebellia gens

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Sources

• Article originally taken from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, edited by William Smith.
• Körner, Christian "Fictitious usurpers: Trebellianus, Celsus and Saturninus", s.v. "Usurpers under Gallienus" De Imperatoribus Romanis

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