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Aelianus (P. Aelius Aelianus) was a senior officer in the Roman Army in the mid-Third Century AD who rose from relatively lowly origins to become the prefect of a legion under the Emperor Gallienus He was one of the earliest beneficiaries of Gallienus’s policy that effectively excluded senators from army commands in favour of career-soldiers of equestrian rank. His later life is obscure. He was possibly ''procurator'' (i.e. Chief Financial Officer) of Epirus in the late-260s, but the foremost authorities query this identification. However, there are stronger grounds for believing that he was appointed a ''praeses'' (provincial governor of equestrian rank) ) in ''Africa'', most likely under the Emperor Probus. ==Sources== The sum total of our knowledge of this man derives from five epigraph inscriptions from: (a) A commemorative stone found in ''Poetovio'' in ''Pannonia Superior'' (now Ptuj in present-day Slovenia); (b) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Publius Aelius Aelianus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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