‘A man’s value is measured by his learning’
Ardashir I to his son Shapur I according to Ferdowsi/Firdausi
‘All the virtues of all men are as great as they have been made to appear by the genius of those who related their deeds’
Flavius Vopiscus Syracusii, Historia Augusta, Probus 1.1 tr. by Magie, 335
‘Aurelian… was not unlike Alexander the Great or Caesar the Dictator; for in the space of three years he retook the Roman world from invaders’
Pseudo-Victor, Epitome De Caesaribus 35.1, tr. by Banchich at www.roman-emperors.org
‘Probus, an emperor whose rule restored to perfect safety the east, the west, the south, and the north, indeed all parts of the world, is now, by reason of a lack of writers, almost unknown to us’
Flavius Vopiscus Syracusii, in Historia Augusta, Probus 1.3 tr. by Magie, 337