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

[Born probably at Rome, A.D. 249. Died in Moesia, A.D. 285. Aged 36.] Eldest son of the Emperor Carus. Was appointed to the command of the Western Provinces, A.D. 282. In A.D. 283, on the death of his father, was associated in the government with his brother Numerianus, who was assassinated when Diocletian was proclaimed Emperor by the army in Asia. Carinus marched against Diocletian, but in the moment of triumph he was slain by one of his own officers, whose domestic happiness he had destroyed. Carinus was a brave and skilful general, but a profligate and vicious man. He was sensual and ferocious. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.]