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103- The Equestrian

The History of Rome

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Macrinus and Julia Misa

Macrinus allowed a group of people suddenly booted from power free reign in rome. Julia domna, for her part, went on a hunger strike and died shortly thereafter. With caracala dead, those two boys now stood as the only real heirs to the house of saverus. They had been betrayed and exiled by that treacherous equite macrinus. The fact that they hadn't reached manhood yet is probably what saved them both.

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