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Updated: June 13, 2025
On other coins of this reign Eternity appears as a female holding a small round object surmounted by a Phoenix. Upon the coins issued in the name of Magnia Urbica, wife of Carinus, on which we see Venus holding a small round object which admittedly represented the Golden Apple, the Crescent frequently accompanies the representations of the Goddess of Love. A Victory in some cases surmounts it.
Ah, Carinus, I know that when, in the evening, the door opens to me which you always find closed, you would joyfully permit me to occupy your throne and reign in your stead so long as you fill my place as bridegroom." Carinus sprang up as if an electric spark had thrilled him. "Hecatæa! I will take you at your word!
"If you should see the splendid turnips I raise in my garden, you surely would not summon me to Rome. An old man like me interests himself only in his apricot slips." At this moment a messenger from the Capitol whispered to Pompeius: "Carinus has laid aside the purple in favor of his brother Numerian." Mesembrius sometimes heard so well that he caught the faintest murmur.
A tribune bent forward to kiss the maniac's hand, and ask in a timid voice: "What result dost thou predict for the battle to which Carinus is just marching?" Glyceria heard the question, and looked gloomily at the soldiers. "Fear nothing! Destroy, set brother against brother, whoever may conquer Rome has lost.
The poet bowed with an humble look, though secretly bursting with rage. The barber had interrupted his finest verses. "What is it that disturbs me still?" groaned Carinus wrathfully. "Guess! Must I think instead of you? Something irritates, something vexes me! I should like to be angry." "I have guessed it," said the barber.
"Do you remember, Carinus, the girl who killed herself before your eyes to escape your embrace? That girl was my promised wife. Do you know what I want now?" "Manlius, you are jesting. What do you want of me? Why do you terrify me?"
This is the vehiculum of the unaccountable and indescribable Glyceria, and the woman who outwitted me was no other than the Circe who has turned goddess, is worshipped by every one, including myself and Carinus, and who thus maltreats every one and changes her adorers, including myself and Carinus, into calves and oxen." Manlius did not hear the poet's last words.
The next moment the hall was wrapped in flames. Like the fiend who gained an entrance into Heaven and was forced to fly thence, Carinus fled from the destroying fire, while Glyceria, seizing a burning coverlet, rushed from room to room, setting fire to each, and, dragging costly garments into the main hall, kindled those too.
Diocletian was generous after his victory, and, contrary to the common practice, there were no executions, proscriptions, or confiscations of property; he even retained most of the officers of Carinus in their places.
And Carinus knew that his victims could not even escape this disgrace by death, since the religion of the Christians forbade suicide. Therefore during his reign believers met at the hour of midnight in secret places, subterranean caverns, and abandoned tombs, and dispersed again at dawn.
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