Tyranni Triginta 1

ed. David Magie

Tyranni Triginta. . ed. David Magie. London. 1934.

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Current edition Perseus

Tyranni Triginta (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Volume 3. Magie, David, editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932.)

Notes on the current edition

Tyranni Triginta

1. The collection actually contains 32 names, of which the last two form a sort of appendix containing two men admittedly not of the time of Gallienus. The author's original plan, according to Gall., xvi. 1; xix. 6; xxi. 1, was to include 20, but as Peter has pointed out (Abh. Sächs. Ges., xxvii. p. 190 f.), this number was raised to that of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens by padding with ten additional names. If we take from the list the names of the two women and the six youths who never held the imperial power, the list is reduced to 22. Of these it may be definitely asserted of Cyriades, Odaenathus, Maeonius and Ballista that they never assumed the purple,
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