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The History of Rome

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Gallienus Victory - A History of Rome

Galleenus intercepted the group who had been driven off by dexippus and defeated them in a battle near the city of nessus in thrace. But claudius gothicus would win a very similar battle the next year, leading some to suppose that something might have gotten mixed up over the years. Or maybe there were two battles, with gallienus and claudius each winning a key victory. That's the version i'm going go with because it poses the fewest problems in trying to reconcile all the disparate facts and theories about what really happened. So in the history of rome, both emperors will get their cooki.

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