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Carus

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Carus (Marcus Aurelius Carus) (kâr`əs), d. 283, Roman emperor (282–83). Praetorian prefect under Probus Probus (Marcus Aurelius Probus) (prō`bəs), d. 282, Roman emperor (276–82), b. Pannonia.
..... Click the link for more information. , he was made emperor by the soldiers after the murder of Probus. Leaving his son Carinus Carinus (Marcus Aurelius Carinus) (kərī`nəs), d. 285, Roman emperor (283–85).
..... Click the link for more information.  in command of the West, Carus and another son, Numerianus, went on a campaign in the East. He defeated the Sarmatians, successfully attacked the Parthians, and took Ctesiphon. Soon afterward he died mysteriously.
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Carus founded the Open Court Publishing Company in 1962 with two aims that did not seem to be at all contradictory: first, to teach children to read, and second, to do so while introducing them to classic children's literature.
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Evidence of torture and gratuitous abuse at Abu Ghraib have done more than anything to discredit the claim of the United States and its allies--introduced as a subsidiary carus belli rather late in the day--to stand for human rights and the rule of law.
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