• Balista or Ballista (died c. 261), also known in the sources with the name of "Callistus", was one of the Thirty Tyrants of the controversial Historia...
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    his father, controller of the imperial treasure, and the influence of Balista, Praetorian prefect of the late Emperor Valerian, proved instrumental in...
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    problems in the West. Macrianus grabbed the opportunity. With the support of Balista, one of Valerian's military commanders, and with the influence that possession...
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    Emesa, where he is killed by Odaenathus of Palmyra. Roman–Persian Wars: Balista, Roman usurper, collects ships from Cilician ports and defeats a Persian...
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    inscriptions claim, 36 cities. It took a rally by an officer named Callistus (Balista), a fiscal official named Fulvius Macrianus, the remnants of the Roman...
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    Invaders, Dylan, Wolfurio, Zenthon, Zenthon Titan, Slycerak, Spatterix and Balista in Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge, as well as the voice of Doji in Beyblade:...
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    The Crossbow With a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and an Appendix on the Catapult, Balista and Turkish Bow (Reprint ed.). pp. 308–315...
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    from his father, who kept the imperial treasure, and by the influence of Balista, Valerian's praefect, Macrianus gained the imperial office together with...
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    Campaigns of Odaenathus (260–267) Usurpation of Quietus (261) Usurpation of Balista (261) Usurpation of Valens Thessalonicus (261) Usurpation of Lucius Calpurnius...
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    officers, Macrianus Major, his sons Quietus and Macrianus, and the prefect Balista rebelled against Valerian's son Gallienus, usurping imperial power in Syria...
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