(We may assume that Valerian's mother, Salonina, would have been most unhappy: the death of her elder son, Valerian II, in Illyria under the tutelage of Ingenuus must have seemed to her to have confirmed her worst fears of this sort of arrangement).
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(By this time Saloninus's grandfather, the senior Emperor Valerian was probably already a captive of the Persian King Shapur I).