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  Carinus
Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Roman emperor, 283 - 284, was the elder son of the emperor Carus, on whose accession he was appointed governor of the western portion of the empire.
Carinus was successful in several engagements, and at the battle on the Margus (Morava), according to one account, the valour of his troops had gained the day, when he was assassinated by a tribune whose wife he had seduced.
Carinus has the reputation of having been one of the worst of the emperors.
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  Carinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Roman emperor, 283 - July, 285, was the elder son of the emperor Carus, on whose accession he was appointed governor of the western portion of the empire.
Carinus was successful in several engagements, and at the battle on the Margus (Morava), according to one account, the valour of his troops had gained the day, when he was assassinated by a tribune whose wife he had seduced.
Carinus has the reputation of having been one of the worst of the emperors.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Carinus
Carinus was the elder of Carus' two sons.
Carinus was ordinary consul with his father in 283, and early in the year was raised to the rank of Augustus.
H.W. Bird, "Diocletian and the deaths of Carus, Carinus and Numerian", Latomus 35 (1976) pp.
www.roman-emperors.org /carinus.htm   (821 words)

  
 Carinus
In celebration of his father's re-conquest of Mesopotamia, Carinus was raised to the rank of Augustus and co-emperor.
It is fairly evident that Carinus was the prefered heir of Carus.
Carinus' reputation as an emperor is among the worst of tyrants.
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 AllRefer.com - Carinus (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He was the son of Carus, who left Carinus as ruler in the West when he went to the East on a campaign against the Parthians.
On the death of Carus, Carinus succeeded in the West, and his brother Numerianus succeeded in the East.
At the moment of victory, however, Carinus was murdered by one of his own soldiers, and Diocletian became sole emperor.
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 Carinus - Wikipedia
Carinus verließ Rom und reiste in den Osten, um Diokletian zu treffen.
Carinus war erfolgreich in verschiedenen Treffen, aber nach der Schlacht am Fluss Margus (die Morava im heutigen Serbien), die seine Truppen für sich entschieden hatten, wurde er, nach einem Bericht, von einem Tribun ermordet, dessen Frau er verführt hatte.
Carinus hat den Ruf, einer der schlechtesten römischen Kaiser gewesen zu sein.
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 The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire - Vol 1 - Chapter XII Part III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
But the elevation of Constantius was for a while deferred; and as soon as the father's death had released Carinus from the control of fear or decency, he displayed to the Romans the extravagancies of Elagabalus, aggravated by the cruelty of Domitian.
The only merit of the administration of Carinus that history could record, or poetry celebrate, was the uncommon splendor with which, in his own and his brother's name, he exhibited the Roman games of the theatre, the circus, and the amphitheatre.
In the midst of this glittering pageantry, the emperor Carinus, secure of his fortune, enjoyed the acclamations of the people, the flattery of his courtiers, and the songs of the poets, who, for want of a more essential merit, were reduced to celebrate the divine graces of his person.
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 (123) Carinus
Marcus Aurelius Carinus, son of the emperor Carus, was made Caesar shortly after his father's accession in A.D. 282, at about the age of thirty-three.
They met in a battle at Margus in Moesia, which was won by Carinus, but he was murdered on the battlefield by one of his men whose wife he had seduced.
The portrait of Carinus on the obverse of this aureus reverts to the standard military type of the third-century emperors, with very short hair and beard, but like the portraits of Postumus (see no. 121) and Probus (see no. 122), it also depicts an elaborate cuirass.
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 Carinus - Wikipedia, den fria encyklopedin
Carinus (Marcus Aurelius Carinus), född omkring år 250, död år 285, romersk kejsare år 283-år 285.
Carinus utsågs till romersk kejsare av sin far Carus, tillsammans med brodern Numerianus.
Carinus segrade - men mördades av en av sina egna officerare.
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 Carinus en Numerianus - Wikipedia
De broers Carinus en Numerianus werden Keizer van Rome 283-285 na het raadselachtige overlijden van hun vader Carus.
Zij verdeelden het rijk met Carinus in het westen en Numerianus in het oosten.
Dit is een doorverwijspagina, bedoeld om onderscheid te maken tussen de verschillende betekenissen en gebruiken van de term Carinus en Numerianus.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carinus_en_Numerianus   (143 words)

  
 Rome - Vol I, Chapter XII, Part 3
In the Gallic war he discovered some degree of personal courage; 80 but from the moment of his arrival at Rome, he abandoned himself to the luxury of the capital, and to the abuse of his fortune.
   The only merit of the administration of Carinus that history could record, or poetry celebrate, was the uncommon splendor with which, in his own and his brother's name, he exhibited the Roman games of the theatre, the circus, and the amphitheatre.
   In the midst of this glittering pageantry, the emperor Carinus, secure of his fortune, enjoyed the acclamations of the people, the flattery of his courtiers, and the songs of the poets, who, for want of a more essential merit, were reduced to celebrate the divine graces of his person.
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 Coins of Carus, Carinus, and Numerian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He quickly raised his older son, Carinus, to the rank of Caesar and their first battles were fought against Germanic tribes.
Carinus was left to deal with the West with the new title of Augustus, while Carus and his younger son Numerian, now Caesar, proceeded to the East to continue the constant struggles against Sasanian Persia.
Marcus Aurelius Carinus was left to control the western portions of the empire as the junior Augustus after his father and brother headed east, and he remained for a time in Rome.
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 275-299
Carinus wanted to be emperor of the east and the west and so fought Diocletian for this honor.
During one of the battles, Carinus was slain by one of his officers.
Diocletian, once an officer under Carus, slew the Praetorian prefect accused of the murders of Carus, Numerianus and Carinus and was proclaimed emperor of all of Rome.
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 T.D. Barnes on Diocletian
In 283 Carinus, the elder son, received charge of Illyricum, Gaul, and Italy; he went to Gaul, restored the Rhine frontier and announced a German victory, and perhaps suppressed a revolt in Britain.
On their father s death, the Caesars Carinus and Numerianus became Augusti, and by January 284 Carinus was in Rome, awaiting the return of his brother and their joint triumph.
Carinus led the stronger army, but its loyalty was vulnerable.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 613 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
CARINUS, M. AURE'LIUS, the elder of the two sons of Carus.
After the death of Carus in 283, he assumed the purple conjointly with his brother, and upon receiving intelligence of the untimely fate of Numerianus and the elevation of Diocletian to the throne by the army of Asia, he set forth in all haste from Gaul to encounter his rival.
Chronologers are at variance with regard to the precise date of the death of Carinus.
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 Carinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Carinus Roman Emperor A. Carinus was living in Rome at the time of his father Carus' death.
Carinus was a dissolute individual like Commodus and Elagabalus, and had all the cruelty of Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla, and Maximinus the Thracian.
It was Carinus' lust and vices that were his undoing.
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 Carinus
Carinus became Caesar along with his brother Numerian soon after their father, Carus, arrived to the throne.
XXI - Carinus standing left, holding globe and spear; seated captive to left.
Rev: VIRTVSAVGG - Carinus standing right on left, holding scepter and receiving Victory from Jupiter to right, holding scepter.
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 Third-Century Crisis - Gallic Empire - Postumus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Numerian became co-emperor with Carinus who, probably around this time, fought a campaign in Britain, from which both he and his brother acquired the appellation 'Britannicus Maximus'.
Carinus, pausing to suppress the rebellion of one Julianus at Verona, marched against Diocletian.
Carinus' larger army was apparently at the point of victory when he was murdered by his own men, leaving Diocletian as sole emperor.
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 Carinus (A.D. 283-285)
Carinus (A.D. Aurelius Carinus, the elder son of Carus, was given the rank of Caesar after his father’s death.
When his father and his younger brother set out for the eastern frontier, Carinus remained in Rome to look after the government of the western provinces, and he was elevated to the rank of Augustus.
Carinus was victorious, but soon afterwards was murdered by one of his own officers, and the Empire fell into the hands of Diocletian.
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 Carinus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Carinus inmediatamente Roma salida y precisado para que el este satisfaga Diocletian.
Carinus era acertado en varios contratos, y en la batalla en el Margus (Morava), según una cuenta, el valour de sus tropas había ganado el día, cuando un tribune lo asesinó que esposa él había seducido.
Carinus tiene la reputación de ser uno del peor de los emperadores.
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 Carus Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Shortly thereafter, he raised his older son, Carinus, to the rank of Augustus and sent him to take charge of the western provinces while he and Numerian headed east to execute the long-awaited invasion of Persia.
The ancient sources paint Carinus as being a man of perversion and cruelty to match Caligula and Commodus, though it's not clear how much is true and how much was the invention of the propaganda machine of his successor, Diocletian.
In his short reign, or so it is written, he took nine different wives (dumping some of them while they were pregnant), committed countless homosexual acts with young boys, killed various office holders so he could appoint his friends to the positions they held, and molested and/or seduced the wives of several of his officers.
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 ROCKBOURNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Carinus became joint emperor with his younger brother Numerian in spring AD283 upon the death of their father the emperor Carus, who was "struck by lightning" near Ctesiphon the Persian capital.
He was to enjoy unlimited imperial power only until the summer of 285 when he was himself murdered by his own generals during the course of the battle against Diocletian at the River Margus (now known as the Morava near modern Belgrade).
Carinus must have campaigned in Britain sometime during 284, as he is known to have taken the victory title Britannicus Maximus in that year.
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 DiocletianOV
Diocletian found favor under the new emperor, and was promoted to comes domesticorum, the commander of the cavalry arm of the imperial bodyguard.
In 284 Carus was killed and left the empire in the hands of his two young sons, Numerian in the east and Carinus in the west.
The battle went well and Carinus was assassinated during the battle by one of Diocletians officers.
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 Carinus, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
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TEMP, Carinus standing right receiving Victory from Jupiter standing left, B between, XXI in ex.
IMP C CARINVS P F AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, Carinus standing right receiving Victory on globe from his father Carus, S left, XXI in ex.
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 Carinus --  Encyclopædia Britannica
With the title of Caesar, he was sent by his father, the emperor Carus, to the army of the Rhine in 282.
On his father's death in the summer of 283, Carinus became emperor in the West, his brother Numerian becoming emperor in the East.
The only definite fact known about Diocletian during this period is that he was among those army chiefs whom Carinus gathered,...
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 Selections from Historia Augusta, Life of Carus, Numerian and Carinus
The Life of Carus, Numerian, and Carinus, from which two passages are extracted here, constructs portraits of three classic types of imperial figure: the soldier-emperor, the bookish boy-emperor (relatively speaking), and the dissolute scoundrel of a bad emperor.
He contended with Diocletian in many battles, but at the last skirmish, which was joined by the Margus river, he was conquered and fell.
This was the end of three rulers, Carus, Numerian, and Carinus.
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 CoinArchives.com Search Results
Roman Gold Coins Carinus, 283-285 Estimate: CHF 30'000.00 Aureus (Gold, 4.47 g 6), Rome, 285.Obverse: IMP CARINVS P F AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Carinus to right.Reverse: VIRTVS AVG Hercules standing right, leaning on club with his left hand and resting his left on his...
Roman Gold Coins Magnia Urbica, Wife of Carinus Estimate: CHF 30'000.00 Aureus (Gold, 4.21 g 11), Rome, 283.Obverse: MAGNIA VRBICA AVG Diademed and draped bust of Magnia Urbica to right, her hair waved and then plaited and drawn up in the back and over the crest of her head.Reverse:...
CARINVS ET NUMERIANVS AVGG Jugate and laureate busts of Carinus and Numerian r., the latter draped.
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 Welcome to CARINUS STRYDOM (Pty) Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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