The Emperors of Rome Podcast

Even dio, who is critical of macrinus here, does not attribute these things. Isni and oxen harmed? No, exactly. They make it out alive. So, maquinus is an emperor who really jos didn't get the opportunity. He tried to reform things too quickly, and he got the army off side. Who knows what he would have gone on to do. The problem was that he wasn't given long enough to do that.