An emperor, endowed with many good qualities. He was son of the Consul Junius Balbus and Metia Faustina, daughter of Gordianus Africanus. When sixteen years old he married the beautiful and virtuous daughter of Misitheus, a wise and eloquent man, whom he appointed Prefect of the Prætorians, and by whose prudent advice he was successfully guided. Upon the death of this able minister, Philip the Arabian contrived to associate himself in the government with Gordianus, who shortly afterwards fell a victim, it is supposed, to the conspiracies of his colleague. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.] 68. CAIUS JULIUS VERUS MAXIMUS. _Roman Prince._ [Date and place of birth unknown. Died at Aquileia, A.D. 238. Aged 18 or 21.] Son of the Emperor Maximinus, who, on his accession to the purple in 235, raised him to the rank of Cæsar. Well educated, vain of his personal beauty, and haughty of demeanour, but not evil disposed. He was massacred with his father at Aquileia by the rebel Prætorians. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.] 69. PHILIP THE YOUNGER.--MARCUS JULIUS PHILIPPUS II. _Roman Prince._ [Born (place unknown), A.D. 237. Died A.D. 249. Aged 12.] Son of Philip I., Emperor of Rome. When seven years old dignified with the title of Cæsar. When ten years old chosen Consul, and shared the empire under the title of Augustus. A child of singularly serious temperament. He could never be induced to laugh, and would turn away his head when his father indulged in merriment. [From the Statue Gallery of the Vatican.] 70. CARINUS--MARCUS AURELIUS. _Roman Emperor_, A.D. 283-285. [Born probably at Rome, A.D. 249. Died in Moesia, A.D. 285. Aged 36.] Eldest son of the Emperor Carus. Was appointed to the command of the Western Provinces, A.D. 282. In A.D. 283, on the death of his father, was associated in the government with his brother Numerianus, who was assassinated when Diocletian was proclaimed Emperor by the army in Asia. Carinus marched against Diocletian, but in the moment of triumph he was slain by one of his own officers, whose domestic happiness he had destroyed. Carinus was a brave and skilful general, but a profligate and vicious man. He was sensual and ferocious. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.] 71. JULIAN THE APOSTATE--FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS. _Roman Emperor_, A.D. 361-363. [Born at Constantinople, A.D. 331. Died in Persia, A.D. 363. Aged 32.]