Tetricus

Tetricus ( Caius Pius Esuvius Tetricus ) reigned like Empire of Gaules of 271 with 273, after the murder of Victorinus. It controlled with his son Tetricus II the young person. Tetricus is a senator of Aquitaine whose rise with the capacity was facilitated by Victorine, the mother of Victorinus. It tried to restore a civil government in the Empire of Gaules but was " taken in otage" by the generals of the dissenting armies in Rome and was confronted with the usurpation of Faustinus, a military chief, on the Rhine.

When the emperor Aurélien penetrated as a Gaulle, it joined with him at the time of the battle which opposed Aurélien to the legions of the Rhine and Brittany rebels (see the article on the Bataille of the fields Catalauniques (274). He would have addressed a letter before to him where it would have taken again the worms of Virgile (Énéide), extracted the song where Enée meets the heart of the Pallinure pilot: " Tear off me, O, invincible, with my tourments".

After the victory over the usurpers of the Gallic Empire, Aurélien showed Tetricus and its son connected with his Triomphe, which shocked deeply certain senators. However, and in spite of a version according to which it would have been carried out (Zosime, badly informed on the events of Occident), Tetricus accepted the forgiveness of Aurélien and was even named Correcteur of Lucanie or more probably correct of all Italy (the regional correctures, even temporary, are attested with certainty only starting from Dioclétien, and the authors undoubtedly make an anachronism which had at the time to which they write), which is attested by several sources.

The life of Tetricus is detailed in " Life of the Thirty tyrants " History Auguste.