THE ROMAN EMPERORS

IN the study of these volumes a table is useful, such as I find it convenient to place here, showing the Ante-Nicene succession of Caesars.


A.D.

A.D.
  1. AUGUSTUS

23. HELIOGABALUS
218
  1. TIBERIUS
14
24. ALEXANDER SEVERUS
222
  1. CALIGULA
37
25. MAXIMINUS
235
  1. CLAUDIUS
41
26. GORDIAN
235
  1. NERO
54
27. PUPIENUS (BALBINUS)
235
  1. GALBA
68
28. GORDIAN THE YOUNGER
238
  1. OTHO
69
29. PHILIP
244
  1. VITELLIUS
69
30. DECUIS
249
  1. VESPASIAN
69
31. GALLUS (VOLUSIANUS)
251
  1. TITUS
79
32. VALERIAN
254
  1. DOMITIAN
81
33. GALLEINUS
260
  1. NERVA
96
34. CLAUDIUS II
268
  1. TRAJAN
98
35. AURELIAN
270
  1. HADRIAN
117
36. TACITUS (PROBUS)
275
  1. ANTONINUS PIUS
138
37. FLORIAN
276
  1. MARCUS AURELIUS
161
38. CARUS (CARINUS, NUMERIAN)
282
  1. COMMODUS
180
39. DIOCLETIAN
284
  1. PERTINAX
192
4O. MAXIMIAN (GALERIUS)
286
  1. DIDIUS JULIANUS (NIGER)
193
41. CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS
292
  1. SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
193
42. MAXIMIN
306
  1. CARACALLA (GETA)
211
43. CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
307
  1. MACRINUS
217
(LICINIUS, etc.)

Suetonius includes Julius, and therefore his Twelve Caesars end with Domitian, the last of the Flavian family. With Nerva the "five good emperors" (so called) begin, but the "good Aurelius" was a persecutor. St. John, surviving the cruelty of Domitian, lived and died under Trajan.

The "vision of Constantine" is dated, at Treves, A.D. 312.

The Labarum became the Roman standard thenceforth.

The Dominical ordinance dates from Milan, June 2, A.D. 321.

He founds the city of Constantinople A.D. 324, convokes the Council of Nicaea A.D. 325.