Aelian (rebel)

Aelianus or Aelian was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called Bagaudae, in the reign of Diocletian. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285.^[1][2][3] The rebellion he led with Amandus in 285 was attributed by some to Christianity, but Edward Gibbon doubts this in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.^[4]

Aelian
Engraving by Jacopo Strada
Occupation	Rebel
Known for	Leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants

References

1. Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History ix. 20
2. Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 89
3. Smith, William (1867), "Aelianus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 28, archived from the original on 2011-06-05, retrieved 2007-10-20{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. Gibbon, Edward. A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. https://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap13.htm.<Accessed Oct 5, 2021>

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aelianus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.