Analecta Caesarum Romanorum, or, Select observations of all the Roman emperors illustrated with their several effigies according to their coins / the first eighteen by Edward Leigh ... ; the others added by his son Henry Leigh ... : also certain choice French proverbs ; alphabetically disposed and Englished, added by the same Edward Leigh.

[illustration] effigy of emperor

Saloninus Gallienus

WAS Son of the foremen∣tioned Gallienus and Cor∣nelia Salonina Pipara, whence some think he was called Saloninus; though others conceive him to be so named for being born at Salona: but Casaubon inclineth to the former opinion.

There is little memorable recorded of him besides his noble extraction and edu∣cation, and that he was murdered not so much for his own, as his Fathers sake. Tre∣bellius Pollio in his life, c. 1.

Exiguum decus nobile stemma & regia

educatio, nisi virtus accedat, saith Goular∣tius in his marginal observation.

He was substituted by his Father, in the place of his elder brother Cornelius Valerianus, who died in his minority.

Divers Soldiers invited to a feast by Gallienus, in the time of their repast laid aside their Girdles and Belts, which be∣ing gilt, or studded with gold, silver and precious stones, Saloninus took a∣way: which being hardly recovered, when lost in a Princes Court, the milita∣ry Officers silently bore their loss, but the next time they were invited sate not down ungirt. And being demanded why their Girdles were not put off? they an∣swered, Salonino deferimus. Tr. Pollio in his life, c. 2.

Ambiguum hoc militarium virorum respon∣sum, quod non videntur animadvertisse do∣ctissimi viri. Duplicem enim sensum potest ha∣bere: aut Salonini honori se hoc tribuere, aut ejus causa hoc facere, ut baltheos non de∣ponerent, ne iterum ab ipso raperentur, hoc responso voluerunt intelligi milites isti. Sed magis verum est, illos sic intellexisse, ne ite∣rum perderent baltheos suos, quos prius rapu∣erat Saloninus, Salonini causa se facere, ne eos dimitterent. Salmasius.