Macrinus and Dio

Macrinus flees, he disguises himself, shaves his head and travels overland through syria and asia minor to try to get back to rome. Eventually, he is recognized in bathynia, so he gets no to the far edge o of turkey, at calcodon,. His head is cut off, but his body remains unburied, dio tells us, until the emperor false antoninus makes his own way to bithynia so he can gloat over the body. I always feel sorry for the children who are caught up in these horrible events. This is a unique to young avetese, this sort of gloating thing