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To the latter he wrote that, being elected emperor by the Senate,

he was willing to share that dignity with him and sent him the

title of Caesar; and, moreover, that the Senate had made Albinus

his colleague; which things were accepted by Albinus as true. But

after Severus had conquered and killed Niger, and settled

oriental affairs, he returned to Rome and complained to the

Senate that Albinus, little recognizing the benefits that he had

received from him, had by treachery sought to murder him, and for

this ingratitude he was compelled to punish him. Afterwards he

sought him out in France, and took from him his government and

life.