(Antoninus) Gordianus, Junior, Imp. 238, son of Gordianus Africanus and Fabia Orestella, great-granddaughter of Antoninus Pius. Died in battle. 66. Pupienus, Imp. 238, {reigned together for four months and then 67. Balbinus, Imp. 238, {were murdered. 68. Gordianus Pius, Imp. 238, grandson, through his mother, of Gordianus Africanus. Murdered. 69. Philip II., Imp. 244, son of, and co-emperor with Philip I. Murdered. 70. Decius(?), Imp. 249--251. Forcibly elected by the army. Killed in battle. 71. Quintus Herennius Etruscus, son of Decius and Herennia Etruscilla. Killed in battle with his father. 72. Hostilianus, son or son-in-law of Decius, Imp. 251, with Treb. Gallus. Murdered. 73. Trebonianus Gallus, Imp. 251--254. Murdered. 74, 75. Volusianus, son of Trebonianus Gallus. Murdered. 76. Gallienus, Imp. 261--268. Murdered. 77. Salonina, wife of Gallienus. 78. Saloninus, son of Gallienus and Salonina. Put to death by Postumus, A.D. 259, at the age of 17. 79. Marcus Aurelius Carinus, Imp. 283, son of the Emperor Carus. Murdered. 80. Diocletian, Imp. 284-305; elected by the army. 81. Constantinus Chlorus, Imp. 305-306, son of Eutropius and Claudia, niece of the Emperor Claudius and Quintilius, father of Constantine the Great. 82. Julian the Apostate, Imp. 361-363, son of Julius Constantius and nephew of Constantine the Great. Died in battle. 83. Magnus Decentius, brother of the Emperor Magnentius. Strangled himself, 353. "In their busts the lips of the Roman emperors are generally closed, indicating reserve and dignity, free from human passions and emotions."--_Winckelmann._ "At Rome the emperors become as familiar as the popes. Who does not know the curly-headed Marcus Aurelius, with his lifted brow and projecting eyes--from the full round beauty of his youth to the more haggard look of his latest years? Are there any modern portraits more familiar than the severe wedge-like head of Augustus, with his sharp cut lips and nose,--or the dull phiz of Hadrian, with his hair combed down over his low forehead,--or the vain, perking face of Lucius Verus, with his thin nose, low brow, and profusion of curls,--or the brutal bull head of Caracalla,--or the bestial, bloated features of Vitellius? "These men, who were but lay figures to us at school, mere pegs of names to hang historic robes upon, thus interpreted by the living history of their portraits, the incidental illustrations of the places where they lived and moved and died, and the buildings and monuments they erected, become like men of yesterday. Art has made them our contemporaries. They are as near to us as Pius VII. and Napoleon."--_Story's Roba di Roma._