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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1800442, member: 19463&quot;]Selecting a ruler based on who their father was rarely went well for the Romans but it is a lesson never learned.&nbsp; If there was an exception, it might be Titus but he died so early it is hard to say.&nbsp; Selecting a ruler by who swings the sharpest sword sounds like a worse answer but the system produced many of the greatest emperors.&nbsp; It can be fun to ask how history would have unfolded if, say, Germanicus had lived and Caligula had not been exposed to concentrated Tiberius but it really does no good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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