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Message:: [QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 4625137, member: 89514"]Given this time frame, it must seem very likely that Septimius and Caracalla's last official imperatorial acclamation was accorded for their British victory, surely the major Roman military action of those years, and the only one that was led by the emperors themselves. It would seem possible that Geta was made Augustus in connection with this victory and acclamation, given the parallel that Septimius made Caracalla Augustus and Geta Caesar when he captured Ctesiphon and became IMP XI in 198. That would mean that Septimius reached his truce with the Caledonians, presumably the victory that occasioned his IMP XII, in c. fall 209, when Geta became Augustus: certainly, if correct, a very important signpost for the chronology of Septimius' British expedition. I am not particularly bothered by the appearance in a number of inscriptions or military diplomas of IMP XIII for Septimius and IMP III or even IIII for Caracalla before his father's death. If not mere errors, these high numbers could reflect minor victories by legates that were indeed commemorated by an imperial salutation, which was not however accepted as valid by the emperors.[/QUOTE]