Zwei Dinge machten ihn verhaßt und verachtet. Das eine seine niedrige Herkunft, da er in Thracien das Vieh gehütet hatte (welches allgemein bekannt war, und ihn in allen Augen herabsetzte); das andre, daß er im Anfange seiner Herrschaft verschob, nach Rom zu gehen und Besitz von der kaiserlichen Würde zu nehmen; daneben in üblen Ruf gerieth, weil er durch seine Statthalter in Rom und anderen Orten viele Grausamkeiten verüben lassen.
This he did not possess for long, for two things made him hated and despised; the one, his having kept sheep in Thrace, which brought him into contempt (it being well known to all, and considered a great indignity by every one), and the other, his having at the accession to his dominions deferred going to Rome and taking possession of the imperial seat; he had also gained a reputation for the utmost ferocity by having, through his prefects in Rome and elsewhere in the empire, practised many cruelties, so that the whole world was moved to anger at the meanness of his birth and to fear at his barbarity.