01-14-2011, 01:15 PM
January 14, 83 (or pehaps 86) BC: Birth of Marcus Antonius, Roman politician (d. 30 BC).
January 14, 244 AD: The Battle of Misiche, Mesiche, or Massice. In this battle, which is only mentioned by a Persian source (on the trilingual inscription king Shapour made at Naqsh-e Rustam), but unnamed in Roman ones, the 19-year old Emperor Gordian III was killed. Roman sources (who fail to mention the defeat entirely) however claim that the teenager Gordian was killed in a plot by Philippus Arabs, probably in the aftermath of the failed campaign. Fact is that Arabs had to by an armistice from Shapur.
January 14, 244 AD: The Battle of Misiche, Mesiche, or Massice. In this battle, which is only mentioned by a Persian source (on the trilingual inscription king Shapour made at Naqsh-e Rustam), but unnamed in Roman ones, the 19-year old Emperor Gordian III was killed. Roman sources (who fail to mention the defeat entirely) however claim that the teenager Gordian was killed in a plot by Philippus Arabs, probably in the aftermath of the failed campaign. Fact is that Arabs had to by an armistice from Shapur.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
