and the other subordinates, and they were, as a result, hesitating, Eutychianus sent Festus (thus—­according to the cubicularius of Tarautas—­was one of the Caesarians named) [Footnote:  The text is emended in accordance with a tentative suggestion of Boissevain.] and persuaded them to kill all such officers and offered as a prize to each soldier who should slay his man the victim’s property and military rank.  The boy also harangued them from the wall with fictitious statements, praising his “father” and [lacuna] Macrinus, as [lacuna]

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[Sidenote:—­33—­] [lacuna] those left to be restored to their original property and status as citizens.  But the most effective means by which he attached them to himself was his promise to give each and every one unlimited amounts of money, and to restore the exiles,—­an act which would seem to make him out in truth a legitimate son of Tarautas [lacuna]

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[Sidenote:—­34—­] [lacuna] Marcianus [lacuna] Macrinus [lacuna] (for Marcellus was dead) he put this person to death; but, lacking courage to proceed further on his own responsibility without Macrinus, he sent for the latter.  Macrinus came quickly to the Alban soldiers at Apamea and appointed his son emperor in spite of the lad’s being but ten years old, in order that with this excuse he might mollify the soldiers by various means, chief among which should be the promise of five thousand denarii; he assigned them a thousand each on the spot and restored to the rest complete allowances of food and everything else of which they had been deprived:  in this way he hoped to appease them.  With this same end in view he bestowed upon the populace a dinner worth one hundred and fifty denarii a head before revealing to them anything about the uprising; for he wanted it to be thought that he was banqueting them not because of that event but to show honor to his son.  And on that occasion first one of the revolted soldiers approached him carrying the head of Julianus (who had been found somewhere in hiding and slain), in many linen cloths and tied up very strongly indeed with ropes, pretending it was the head of the False Antoninus.  He had sealed the package with the finger ring of Julianus.  After doing that the soldier ran out when the head was uncovered.  Macrinus, upon discovering what had been done, no longer dared either to stay where he was or to assault the fortification, but returned to Antioch with all speed.  So the Alban legion and the rest who were wintering in that region likewise revolted.  The opposing parties continued their preparations and both sides sent messengers and letters to the provinces and to the legions.  As a result perturbation was caused in many places by the first communication of each side about the other and by the constant messages contradicting each other.