successianus造句

• Nothing is known of Successianus's origins or his date of birth.
• Thanks to Successianus's inspired leadership, the city held out and the raiders were forced to retreat after suffering considerable losses.
• The prisoners included, according to Shapur's claims, many other high-ranking officials, including a praetorian prefect, possibly Successianus.
• It is supposed that Successianus was with Valerian, still serving him as Praetorian Prefect when Shapur defeated him and took him captive near the city of Osrhoene Edessa in June ( ? ) 260.
• Successianus is first encountered, probably in 254, as the commander of the garrison of Pityus, a city in the Kingdom of Colchis on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in modern Georgia.
• During Successianus's watch, Pityus came under attack by the " Borani ", one of the peoples who lived in the steppes north of the Crimea known generally as the " Scythae ".
• Unfortunately, the qualities that had made Successianus an excellent garrison commander in Pityus were obviously not those he needed as Valerian's Chief-of-General Staff : the Roman defence of the East, torn between the need to fend off Shapur in Mesopotamia and Syria and the " Scythae " in Asia Minor, was generally ineffective.
• It is impossible to determine whether in Successianus we see a promising officer who had shown sufficient promise to be promoted " praepositus " of the garrison of an allied city, but was then elevated beyond his capabilities, or a soldier of some competence who was unable to get a grip on the situation that prevailed at the headquarters of the Imperial field-army.