Guido Migliorati

The killing of Gallienus probably sprang from the violent reaction on the part of the army to the Emperor’s policy, which was pursuing an increasingly explicit military cooperation with the Germans; indeed Gallienus welcomed the Herulian chief Naulobatus, honoring him with ornamenta consularia, but also contracted with another Marcomannic chief, Attalus, so that territorial concessions in Pannonia were marked by the Germans collaboration in military control of the territory, and this covenant had the Emperor sanction through the concubinage with a daughter of Attalus...