
Episode CXXV - Call Me Not a Lord, for I Am a Lady (Elagabalus III)
Emperors of Rome
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Dio - The False Antoninus
In his entire sol rein he wasn't married. He sent the marriage proposal to the parthians, but that came to nought. We know of three wives, including one he married twice and he is probably married another time. But out of all his marriages, no children were born. These marriages entirely take place within a couple of years. And there's not loof detail about these marriages or who these women are, except for one obvious exception. Dio quips, this is book 80, point nine, the false antoninus married cornelia paula in order, as he said, that he might sooner become a father, he who could not even be a
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