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Episode CXXII - Purple by Merit

Emperors of Rome

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Caracala and the Senate Turn on Itself

After the death of caracala and the ascent of macrinus is that the senate really turns on itself. With dio's account here we get a little of detail that we perhaps haven't seen since tacitus annals. Here we get some senators who want to call caracalla's senatorial supporters to account. People can serve emperors, but still write nasty things about them behind their back. We also hear the people at rome becoming hostile to macrinus. And they become hostile after hearing of the death of a senator aurelianus,. whom aquinus had to offer up to the soldiers. Also when they hear that maquinus son, didemen

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