ABSTRACT
OMENS WERE FULFILLED and oracles justified when the son of Dalmatian slaves who had belonged to the Roman Senator Anulinus, being then some thirty-nine years of age, ascended the throne of the world. Mother and son received their name from their native place, tiny Dioclea near Cattaro; now for the Romans' sake Diodes, "famed of Zeus," added a proper Latin ending and made his name Diocletianus. The allusion to the ruler of the gods in Dio-he retained; his Latin cognomen Jovius is a reminiscence of it.
