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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Albinus Biography ALBINUS, CLODIUS, the popular name for DECIMUS CLODIUS CEIONIUS SEPTIMUS ALBINUS ( ?-197 A.D.). A Roman commander. He was a governor of Gaul and Britain at the time of the death of the Emperor Commodus (192), and was made Caesar by Septimius Severus in 194, as a means of keeping him neutral. After defeating his rivals, however, Severus turned his arms against Albinus, and in a battle near Lugdunum (Lyons) in Gaul (197), Albinus was defeated and killed (Dio Cass. lxx. 4. Vita Albini) The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 341. |