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 | | He achieved distinction during long service in the army, and having been made Caesar by Diocletian in 285, received the title of Augustus in the following year (April i, 286). |
 | | In 287 he suppressed the rising o: the peasants (Bagaudae) in Gaul, but in 289, after a three years struggle, his colleague and he were compelled to acquiesce in the assumption by his lieutenant Carausius (who had crossec over to Britain) of the title of Augustus. |
 | | On the ist of May 305, the day of Diocletian's abdication he also, but without his colleague's sincerity, divested himsel of the imperial dignity at Mediolanum (Milan), which had been his capita], and retired to a villa in Lucania; in the following year, however, he was induced by his son Maxentius to reassunn the purple. |
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