id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4467 Gallienus - Wikipedia .html text/html 5509 631 66 The 6th-century Greek chronicler John Malalas and the Epitome de Caesaribus report that he was about 50 years old at the time of his death, meaning he was born around 218.[2] He was the son of Emperor Valerian and Mariniana, who may have been of senatorial rank, possibly the daughter of Egnatius Victor Marinianus, and his brother was Valerianus Minor. She was the mother of three princes: Valerian II, who died in 258; Saloninus, who was named co-emperor but was murdered in 260 by the army of general Postumus; and Marinianus, who was killed in 268, shortly after his father was assassinated.[4] Gallienus' niece might have been Basilla of Rome, who was beheaded for her Christian faith under Valerian's reign.[5] In Southern's view, these reforms and the decline in senatorial influence not only helped Aurelian to salvage the Empire, but they also make Gallienus one of the emperors most responsible for the creation of the Dominate, along with Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine I.[58] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4467.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4467.txt