MARCUS AURELIUS

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• MARCUS AURELIUS NUMERIANUS

NUMERIANUS  , son of the Roman emperor Carus . On the death of his father, whom he accompanied on his expedition against the Persians, he was proclaimed emperor (December, A.D . 283) . He resolved to abandon the campaign, and' died mysteriously on his way back to Europe, eight months afterwards- Arrius Aper, praefect of the praetorianguards, his father-in-law, who was suspected of having murdered him, was slain by Diocletian, whom the soldiers had already proclaimed his successor . Numerianus is represented as having been a man of considerable literary attainments, and of remarkably amiable character .