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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1011 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Were this last statement true he rrmst have been born while his parent was a slave ; but this is impossible, for, as Niebuhr has pointed out, the Roman law, even as it stood at that period, would have prevented the son from being enlisted in the legion. |
 | | From his mother, Doclea, or Dioclea, who received her designation from the village where she dwelt, he inherited the appellation of Docles or Diodes, which, after his assumption of the purple, was Latinized and expanded into the'more majestic and sonorous Diocletianus, and attached as a cognomen to the high patrician name of Valerius. |
 | | When the fate of Numerianus became known, the troops |
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