Septimius Antiochus

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Septimius Antiochus († after 273 ) was a brief Roman usurper in Syria .

In the year 272 the Roman emperor Aurelian had defeated the special empire of Palmyra ; the anti-emperor Vaballathus and his mother Zenobia fell into Roman captivity. According to Zosimos , a year later a rebellion against Roman rule broke out in Palmyra, during which Antiochus, presumably the father (or son?) Of Zenobias, was proclaimed Augustus at the instigation of an Apsaeus . The uprising was betrayed to Aurelian by Marcellinus and suppressed by troops loyal to the emperor. The emperor supposedly spared the usurper's life.

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