The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ...

13. QƲIETƲS.

QUietus was a Youth worthy of his Father and his Brother, in conjunction with whom, as we have said, he was made Empe∣ror, which he also deserved. But when Ode∣natus, the King of the Palmyreni, who had pre∣tended to the Empire of the East from the Cap∣tivity of Valerian, heard of the entire defeat of both his Father and his Brother by Aureolus, he came with a Force against this Youth, vin∣dicating as it were the Cause of Gallienus, and slew him first, and Balista soon after him. Yet had Quietus and his Brother lived, they might have done the State very great Service. Their Family flourishes at this day, and one thing is very remarkable of it; that it is a Fa∣mily which hath, and hath always had such an Honour for Alexander the Great of Mace∣donia, that the Men continually wear his Pi∣cture in their Rings, and have it cut upon their Plate; the Women wear it finely wrought in their Heads, Bracelets, Rings, Gowns, Bor∣ders, Mantles, and all manner of Dresses. The other day, a Gentleman of that Family, Cor∣nelius Macer, giving an Entertainment in the Temple of Hercules, he had a Gold and Silver Bowl there, on which in the midst was engra∣ved

a Head of Alexander, and round it was all the History of him, contained in short and pretty Figures, which every one that had an Honour for that great Man was very Curious to see. I mention this, because also there is an Opinion, that such as carry about them such an Image either in Gold or Silver, are di∣vinely assisted in all that they do.