Herodian's Letter to the Senate

Cose: Many emperors before have said, even symbolically, theyre handing back power to the senate. This is exactly what we see with septimius severas hundredaso and herodian. Cose: It's this tension betraying the fact that rome has essentially become a heredita monarchy. But there's also this other tension, this ideology of the best man. And so emperors are able to play the best man,. i am the best emperor, often because of their generalship and yo, their command of the army.