117-138. family long Related to Built a for Reformed the disci his guard pline of the army; reduced the law of tified rampart (Picts' wall) across Britain; built a mausoleum for himself (now Castle of San Angelo), and a fa mous villa; built bridges and tem ples; restored drainage of Rome. Rome and Italy to uniform and permanent standard; made the Council of State a high court of justice. Claudius II., 268 270. Declared by the Mosian Aurelian, New defen- Great defeat by the Goths, who retreated on being promised an annual sum of money; general persecution of Christians. Wars with Persians and with Goths; civil wars between various (at one time thirty) imperial candidates and their armies; persecution of Christians; empire ravaged by plague.1 Great victories over the Goths; a picked body of Goths placed in the Roman army. Ended the Gothic 1 Gibbon calculates that nearly half the inhabitants of the empire per ished at this time by war, famine, and pestilence, |