The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

238-244. [Born A.D. 224. Died near Castrum Circesium, in Mesopotamia, A.D. 244. Aged 20.] An emperor, endowed with many good qualities. He was son of the Consul Junius Balbus and Metia Faustina, daughter of Gordianus Africanus. When sixteen years old he married the beautiful and virtuous daughter of Misitheus, a wise and eloquent man, whom he appointed Prefect of the Prætorians, and by whose prudent advice he was successfully guided. Upon the death of this able minister, Philip the Arabian contrived to associate himself in the government with Gordianus, who shortly afterwards fell a victim, it is supposed, to the conspiracies of his colleague. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.]