The Preoccupation With Fruit in the Empire

He didn't quite read the mood of the times that he should be out on the frontiers himself. He gets wounded by an arrow, but he doesn't seem to have been personally leading from the front. I think that that sort of behavior would be fine if there weren't exceptional circumstances in the empire. Like, you could have done this and got away with it a hundred years earlier. And that is a time when soldiers thrive.