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 ...

20. PISO.

PIso was sent with a Force by Macrianus, to kill Valens, the Eighteenth in this Cata∣logue of Tyrants; but finding that Valens was provided against him, he changed his Course into the Province of Thessaly, and was there by the consent of a small Party, himself made an Emperor, with the Title of Emperor of Thessalia. He was a very good and Provident sort of a Man, to a Proverb; so that he was called in his time the Thrifty Piso; and he was of that Noble Family of the Piso's, into which Cicero says, to do his own an Honour, he Mar∣ried his Daughter Tullia. He was much in the esteem of all the Great Men. Valens,

who sent Ruffians after him into Thessalia, who Murdered him, confessed, that though he was his Enemy, he knew not what account to give of that Fact to the Gods, the Infernal Judges, because the Roman Empire had not then such another Person as Piso. The Senate upon the News of his Death, met upon the seventh of the Kalends of July, and unanimously de∣creed the Honours of a God, with this Elo∣gium, that there never was a better Man, nor one more firm and constant than he. They decreed him a Triumphal Statue and a Cha∣riot, to be put up to his Honour. The former is yet to be seen, amongst the others of the same kind. The latter did sometime stand about the place, where since hath been built the famous Bath of Dioclesian, of eternal, as well as sacred, memory.