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136- Let This Be Our Final Battle

The History of Rome

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Constantine's War With Lycinius

Constantine couldn't very well let them just get away, so he followed imaginary boundaries between the emperors be damned. Lycines, of course, took deep offence to constantine's presence and protested,. Naturally, suspecting that the whole thing was a contrived attempt to suck him back into war. Both men immediately mustered the largest armies they could put together as it wasunr on both sides that there would be no settlement this time around. The troop numbers, while obviously exaggerated, speak to the seriousness with which both men took the coming confrontation.

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