Probus 18

ed. David Magie

Probus. . ed. David Magie. London. 1932.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Notes on the current edition

Probus

1. For a similar policy, see Alex., lviii. 4.
2. From Nubia; see note to Aur., xxxiii. 4. Undaunted by the defeat administered under Aurelian they had broken forth again and had overrun all Upper Egypt. According to Zosimus, i. 71, 1, they were now defeated by Probus' generals; because of this statement it has been questioned whether Probus himself was in Egypt at all.
3. i.e., the Persians, against whom the present eastern expedition was directed in resumption of the war which had been cut short by the murder of Aurelian; see Aur., xxxv. 4-5.
4. North of the mouth of the Danube. Like the Getae, they may have been driven southward by the pressure of the Goths, and now they were admitted to Roman territory.
5. Both Gothic tribes; see Claud., vi. 2 and note. Nothing is known of any of these settlers, but Zosimus (i. 71, 2) tells of a colony of Franks settled by Probus near the mouth of the Danube, who, as soon as the Emperor had left the region, built ships and, after plundering the coasts of Greece, Sicily and northern Africa, sailed off to their home, near the mouth of the Rhine. The biographer may have generalised this incident.
6. See Firm., vii.-xi.
7. See Firm., xii.-xiii.
8. See Firm., xiv-xv.
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