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Episode CCXI - Claudius Gothicus

Emperors of Rome

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Aurelian and the Battle of Nisos

Aurelian, the next emperor with him as one of his key generals, this is Aurelian and from what I could tell from the text he seems to get a lot of the credit. According to Zosimus this is book 143, great numbers were slain in this battle in both sides but the Romans by a pretended flight drew the barbarians into an ambush and killed more than 50,000 of them. It's interesting that other sources that glorify Claudius Gothicus from the fourth century like Aurelius Victor don't mention these events at all. Probably some of the subsequent whitewashing because they don't want anything to interfere with the myth of Claudius.

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