Proculus


Proculus, a usurper in Gaul, born among the Albigauni, a people of the maritime Alps (now Albenga, on the coast of Genoa), a powerful man, of outrageous lustfulness. At Lyons he was named Emperor, at first in jest, but being proclaimed as such in good earnest, his revolt was speedily suppressed by Probus, and he himself was put to death near Cologne, about the time that Bonosus and Saturninus met the same fate. -Goltzius gives a coin as belonging to this Proculus, and Medoabarbus publishes another, equally unauthenticated.

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