Note 044 Both Dion and Herodian speak of the virtues and vices of Macrinus, with candour and impartiality; but the author of his Life, in the Augustan History, seems to have implicitly copied some of the venal writers, employed by Elagabalus to blacken the memory of his predecessor.

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Note to Chapter 6 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon