Numérien

Numérien ( Marcus Aurelius Numerianus ) was Roman Emperor of December 283 at the beginning of 284.

Numérien accompanies his/her father Carus in their military countryside against the Perses. The Histoire Auguste presents it like a man of about thirty years, with remarkable qualities of speaker, which is not the talent which is appropriate to the emperors of the time.

In addition, Numérien contracted an ocular infection, which makes it hypersensitive to the light and the cloister in its tent. The Préfet of the court Arrius Aper, which is also his/her father-in-law, takes the direction of the army. The soldiers impressed by the sudden death of Carus, do not want to continue the war any more, and require to return in the Roman territories. The army thus makes retirement, and returns in the province of Asia.

Numérien is found died in its tent. Arrius Aper dissimulates its death by pretexting that Numérien, always suffering from the eyes, cannot be exposed outside and wants to see only him. It makes it transport in closed litter to Nicomédie. At the end of a few days, the odor of putrefaction makes uncover trickery. Arrius Aper is put in charge in the place of weapons of the camp, while the soldiers proclaim emperor the commander of the imperial guard Dioclès. Dioclès stabs Arrius Aper at once, without letting it be explained.

The Histoire Auguste presents Arrius Aper like the murderer of Numérien. Its dissimulation makes it suspect, but the attitude of Dioclès is also not clear. But as Dioclès succeeds Numérien under the name of Dioclétien, the history gives him the beautiful role.

Successive names

  • Towards 253, is born Marcus Aurelius Numerianus
  • 283, reaches the Empire: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Persicus Maximus
  • 284, titulature with its death: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus Maximus Persicus Maximus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribuniciae Potestatis III, Imperator I, Consul II

See too

Sources

  • History Auguste , unknown author
  • the Roman Emperors , of François Zosso and Christian Zingg, 1995, edition wandering
  • general History of the Roman Empire , Small Paul, 1974, Threshold

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