Dio's 'Sad Anapolis'

Dio gives a rundown of these various names. And that's not unusual for a entirely new name to be taken, not an imperial name,. No, we can't holdthat against him. He wants his readers to know that it' gare to turn up very badly. So, sad anapolis. That sounds like a hannabarbari carton character. In this case it's a assyrian king. The assyrians, as an eastern empire, are assimilated with decadence in roman thought. But early in the twentieth century, scholars did call him heliogabalus.