[94: It is difficult to form a conception of the degree of historical falsification which prevails in a portion of the Imperial Biographies; it will not be amiss to present here a specimen of it in the account of Postumus. He is here called (no doubt in an inserted document) _Iulius Postumus_ (_Tyr._ 6), on the coins and inscriptions _M. Cassianius Latinius Postumus_, in the epitomised Victor, 32, Cassius Labienus Postumus.--He reigns seven years (_Gall._ 4); _Tyr._ 3, 5; the coins name his _tr. p. X._, and Eutropius, ix. 10, gives him ten years.--His opponent is called _Lollianus_, according to the coins _Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus_, _Laelianus_ in Eutropius ix. 9 (according to the one class of manuscripts, while the other follows the interpolation of the biographers) and in Victor (c. 33), _Aelianus_ in the epitome of Victor.--Postumus and Victorinus rule jointly according to the biographer; but there are no coins common to both, and consequently these confirm the report in Victor and Eutropius that Victorinus was the successor of Postumus.--It is a peculiarity of this class of falsifications that they reach their culmination in the documents inserted. The Cologne epitaph of the two Victorini (_Tyr._ 7), _hic duo Victorini tyranni (!) siti sunt_ criticises itself. The alleged commission of Valerian, whereby the latter communicates to the Gauls the nomination of Postumus, not only praises prophetically the gifts of Postumus as a ruler, but names also various impossible offices; a _Transrhenani limitis dux et Galliae praeses_ at no time existed, and Postumus ἀρχὴν ἐν Κελτοῖς στρατιωτῶν ἐμπεπιστευμένος (Zosimus, i. 38) can only have been _praeses_ of one of the two Germanies, or, if his command was an extraordinary one, _dux per Germanias_. Equally impossible is, in the same quasi-document, the _tribunatus Vocontiorum_ of the son, an evident imitation of the tribunates, as they emerge in the _Notitia Dign._ of the time of Honorius.--Against Postumus and Victorinus, under whom the Gauls and the Franks fight, Gallienus marches with Aureolus, afterwards his opponent, and the later emperor Claudius; he himself is wounded by a shot from an arrow, but is victorious, without any change being produced by the victory. Of this war the other accounts know nothing. Postumus falls in the military insurrection instigated by the so-called Lollianus, while according to the report in Victor and Eutropius, Postumus becomes master of this Mentz insurrection, but then the soldiers kill him because he will not deliver up Mentz to them for plunder. As to the elevation of Postumus, by the side of the narrative which agrees in the main with the ordinary one, that Postumus had perfidiously set aside the son of Gallienus entrusted to his guardianship, stands another evidently invented to clear him, according to which the people in Gaul did this, and then offered the crown to Postumus. The tendency to eulogise one