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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7936162, member: 89514&quot;]According to the Life of Macrinus in the Historia Augusta, &quot;when the senate conferred on Macrinus the names Pius and Felix, he accepted the name of Felix but refused that of Pius.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>After Macrinus&#039; death, the author continues, an epigram was written against him in Greek and then translated into Latin, which the author quotes for us, stating that Macrinus wanted to be Felix but not Pius, but that was impossible; he could have been both, but now he was neither forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is all clearly invention by the author, perhaps inspired by Dio&#039;s full account of the titles that Macrinus assumed in his first letter, and that were then officially bestowed on him by senatorial decree. Dio&#039;s account is confirmed by the coins and inscriptions, as we have seen; his intention was clearly to write what had actually happened. The same cannot be said of the author of the Historia Augusta![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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