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<blockquote>Balbinus was an admired orator, a poet of distinguished fame, and a wise magistrate, who had exercised with innocence and applause the civil jurisdiction in almost all the interior provinces of the empire. His birth was noble, his fortune affluent, his manners liberal and affable. In him, the love of pleasure was corrected by a sense of dignity, nor had the habits of ease deprived him of a capacity for business. (...) The two colleagues [Pupienus and Balbinus] had both been consul (Balbinus had twice enjoyed that honourable office), both had been named among the twenty lieutenants of the senate; and, since the one was sixty and the other seventy-four years old, they had both attained the full maturity of age and experience.<ref>''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', vol. I, p. 225, Edward Gibbon (The Online Library of Liberty). [http://oll.libertyfund.org/files/1365/Gibbon_0214.01.pdf].</ref></blockquote>
 
When theKetika [[Gordian I|Gordians]] werediangkat proclaimedmenjadi EmperorsKaisar indi AfricaAfrika, theSenat SenateRomawi appointedmembentuk asebuah committeekomite ofyang twentyterdiri mendari 20 orang, includingtermasuk Balbinus, tountuk co-ordinateberkoordinasi operations againstmelawan [[Maximinus Thrax]].{{cn|date=December 2013}} OnSetelah themendengar newsberita oftentang thekekalahan Gordians' defeat, theSenat Senate votedmemilih [[Pupienus]] anddan Balbinus assebagai wakil kaisar co-emperorspada ontanggal 22 April 238,<ref name=Handbook/> though they were soon forced to co-opt the child [[Gordian III]] as a colleague. Unlike the situation in 161, both emperors were elected as ''[[Pontifex Maximus|pontifices maximi]]'', chief priests of the official cults. This would be unthinkable in Republican times. Balbinus was probably in his early seventies: his qualifications for rule are unknown, except presumably that he was a senior senator, rich and well-connected. While Pupienus marched to [[Ravenna]], where he oversaw [[Siege of Aquileia|the campaign against Maximinus]], Balbinus remained in Rome, but failed to keep public order. The sources suggest that after Pupienus's victorious return following Maximinus' death, Balbinus suspected Pupienus of wanting to supplant him, and they were soon living in different parts of the Imperial palace,{{cn|date=December 2013}} where they were later assassinated by disaffected elements of the [[Praetorian Guard]], with Balbinus' death occurring on 29 July 238.<ref name=Handbook/>
 
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