Septimius Antiochus

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

In the year 272 the Roman Emperor Aurelian had vanquished the special kingdom of Palmyra; the anti-emperor Vaballathus and his mother Zenobia fell into Roman captivity. After Zosimus one years later broke in Palmyra a rebellion against Roman rule from during which Antiochus, probably the father ( or son? ) Zenobia, was proclaimed on behalf of an Apsaeus Augustus. The uprising was betrayed by Marcellinus on Aurelian and crushed by troops loyal to the emperor. The Emperor supposedly spared the life of the usurper.

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  • Zosimus, New History, 1.60 to 61
Syria Palaestina Marcellinus (consul 275)
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