id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9857 Victorinus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1786 291 62 After engineering the death of Marius, Victorinus was declared emperor by the troops located at Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in the fall of 269.[5] His principal concern was to prevent the western provinces from submitting to the central authority of the Roman Empire, a fact made clear to him from the first few weeks when only the provinces of Gaul, Germania and Britain recognised him. Victorinus was murdered at Colonia[1] in early 271[7] by Attitianus, one of his officers, whose wife Victorinus had supposedly seduced.[8] Since the motive was personal and not political,[2][8] Victorinus' mother, Victoria (or Vitruvia), was able to continue to hold power after the death of Victorinus and she arranged for his deification and, after considerable payment to the troops, the appointment of Tetricus I as his successor.[8][2] Another military commander appears to have been proclaimed as the emperor Domitianus II, but was soon eliminated.[citation needed] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9857.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9857.txt