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On the Date of the Defeat of C. Pescennius Niger at Issus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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What may be called the orthodox view of the chronology of the revolt of Gaius Pescennius Niger during the early years of Septimius-Severus' principate is roughly as follows :—
Some time in the late spring of A.D. 193 both Septimius and Niger, then governors of Pannonia and Syria respectively, assumed the imperial title. The war occasioned by these rival claims opened in the neighbourhood of Byzantium somewhere in the autumn of the same year and consisted in a series of engagements of which the most noteworthy took place at Cyzicus, Nicaea, the Cilician Gates and Issus, ending with the total defeat of Niger on the last-named field. This defeat occurred in the autumn of 194 and was followed by the pursuit and death of the unsuccessful claimant on the banks of the Euphrates in the early winter of that year.
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page 148 note 1 Mr. Harrer believes the Province to have been divided in 194.
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page 150 note 1 In my Life and Reign of Sept. Sev. p. 122, I say that Egypt's partisanship of Niger ‘had been unanimous and whole-hearted’. This statement I herewith retract.
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page 152 note 4 The news of the battle of Munda reached Rome in 35 days (Barth, Quaestiones Tullianae, p. 20) and Issus is even as the crow flies 250 miles further from Rome than Munda is.
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