Valerianus, Lucinius, Roman emperor from 253 to 260, elected by the legions in Rhætia; the empire being assailed on all hands he set out to defend it on the E.; was defeated at Edessa, taken prisoner, and cruelly treated; when he died his skin, it is said, was stuffed and paraded as a trophy.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Valentinians * Valerius Maximus