GALIEN. Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus was the son of Valerian and was elected Augustus in A.D. 253; he governed until A.D. 268. As general, he routed the barbarian Goths, who had begun to invade Italy by land and sea. He made Odaenathus, king of Palmyra, vice-regent for the Eastern Empire. When Zenobia became queen, however, she wanted to be an independent ruler. Gallienus sent Heraclianus against her, and she defeated him. Boccaccio says that Gallienus was effeminate in contrast to the manly Zenobia (De claris mulieribus XCVIII).

The Monk says that Emperor Galien had never been as courageous as Cenobia, MkT 2335-2342. [Cenobia: Odenake: Sapor]

Galien, the OF variant of Latin Gallienus, occurs in final rhyming position, MkT 2336.