Event Failed usurpations of Lucius Piso and Valens Thessalonicus

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261: Failed usurpations of Lucius Piso and Valens Thessalonicus in Achaea, in the Roman Empire.

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  • January 261: The following year a new raid by them was stopped by the armies of Postumus. For these successes, he assumed the title of Restitutor Galliarum, or restorer of Gaul, also deciding to hire bands of newly defeated Frankish soldiers among the ranks of his army, to fight against their own brothers, as testified by the Aurelius Victor himself.