Decius the tribune was a Campanian by race and a man of unusual greed and daring. |
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A Third Century Emperor, Decius, even received from the Senate the name Trajan as a decoration. |
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Further widespread persecutions of the Church occurred under nine subsequent Roman emperors, most intensely under Decius and Diocletian. |
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And sometime in AD 251, they defeated a Roman army in the Balkans, killing the emperor Decius in the process. |
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These baths were later expanded by the third century emperor Decius as a means of stressing his link to Trajan. |
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Later both Decius and Gallienus assumed the titles Dacicus Maximus. |
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Several such raids followed in subsequent decades, in particular the Battle of Abrittus in 251, led by Cniva, in which the Roman Emperor Decius was killed. |
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