Decius
c. 201 CE–c. 251 CE · Sremska Mitrovica
Decius (born c. 201 at Budalia in Pannonia Inferior, near Sirmium, died June 251) was a Roman emperor who fell fighting the Goths at the Battle of Abritus, the first Roman emperor killed in battle against a foreign enemy. In 250 he issued an empire-wide edict requiring all inhabitants to sacrifice to the Roman gods before a magistrate and obtain a certificate (libellus); surviving libelli from Egypt document its enforcement. The measure triggered the first systematic, empire-wide persecution of Christians, during which Fabian, the bishop of Rome, died in custody in January 250; the persecution lapsed after Decius's death.
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Graeco-Roman world
- Philostratus the Athenian· 170 CE–245 CE
- Philostratus Sophista· 170 CE–245 CE
- Herodian· 170 CE–240 CE
- Maximinus Thrax· 173 CE–238 CE
- Aelian· 175 CE–235 CE
- Balbinus· 178 CE–238 CE
- Caracalla· 188 CE–217 CE
- Gordian II· 192 CE–238 CE
- Valerian· 199 CE–260 CE
- Tacitus· 200 CE–276 CE
- Philip the Arab· 204 CE–249 CE
- Plotinus· 204 CE–270 CE
- Elagabalus· 204 CE–222 CE
- Trebonianus Gallus· 206 CE–253 CE
- Aemilianus· 207 CE–253 CE
- Severus Alexander· 208 CE–235 CE
- Dexippus· 210 CE–273 CE
- Quintillus· 212 CE–270 CE
- Claudius Gothicus· 214 CE–270 CE
- Aurelian· 214 CE–275 CE
- Gallienus· 218 CE–268 CE
- Gordian III· 225 CE–244 CE
- Hostilian· 230 CE–251 CE
- Volusianus· 230 CE–253 CE
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