of War, that as the Army had chose him, so the Senate wished for him, and the People of Rome made open Acclamations to have him.
Florianus, though he had otherwise much in him of the Temper of his Brother, was very different from him in this Ambition, and this Thirst for the Empire. He was profuse be∣sides, which his Thrifty Brother blamed in him. They both together reigned so short a time, that they look almost like two Interrexes, acting betwixt the Reigns of Aurelian and Probus. Their Statues were set up at Terni, in Ombria, in Marble, thirty Foot high; and likewise their Sepulchres did sometime stand there ••pon their own Grounds; but they were afterwards struck down with Thunder and Lightning, and shattered to pieces.
I come in the next place to Probus: a Prince, Conspicuous at home and abroad; and in whom are united all those great Excellen∣cies, which Aurelian, Trajan, Hadrian, the Antonini, Alexander Severus, and Claudius, di∣vided amongst them. He came to the Em∣pire with the concurrent Judgment of all Men of goodness. He governed it most happily. He extinguished the Barbarian Nations in their Incursions, together with divers Usur∣pers who would have set themselves up in his time. He was worthy of his Name: which the People would have imposed upon him, if it had not been his own by his Birth. Several say he was promised to the World in the Books of the Sibyls. Had he longer lived, he had left