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GAIUS PESCENNIUS NIGER

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GAIUS PESCENNIUS
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NIGER  ,
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governor of
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Syria under the
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emperor
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Commodus . On the
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death of
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Pertinax (A.D . 193), he was saluted emperor by the troops at
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Antioch, but unaccountably delayed marching on
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Rome until he learned that Septimius
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Severus, one of the
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rival claimants, had assumed the offensive . He then strongly garrisoned
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Byzantium and the
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principal towns of
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Asia
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Minor, but after his
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legate Aemilianus had been defeated and slain near
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Cyzicus he himself was driven from
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Nicaea and routed near the Cilician
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Gates . Having failed in an effort to
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escape towards the
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Euphrates, he was brought back and put to death in 194 . Aelius Spartianus, Pescennius
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Niger; Dio
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Cassius lxxii . 8; lxxiii . 13, 14 .

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