Gordian

MARCUS ANTONIUS AFRICAN US, (gorde-an,) B. 160 A. D., of a Roman patrician stock, after serving as proconsul in Africa (237), was elected, in a ociation with his son, emperor of Rome, and strangled himself after the death of his son, 238. His grandson, G. (MARCUS ANTONIUS PIUS,) B. 225, became sole emperor in 238, and defeated the Persian invaders in the Chaboras, 243. Put to death by order of the usurper Philip pus,244. [s. 415]