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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4641787, member: 19463&quot;]How much time elapsed between the death of Constantius and the appointment of a replacement Augustus?&nbsp; Your statement makes it sound like he was intending to rule alone.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure he was not intending to replace Constantius with a full equal&nbsp; Augustus but I believe the main problem was that he did not see Constantine as the in-line replacement for Constantius since there were two Caesars obviously in line for the promotion and both were friends of Galerius.&nbsp;&nbsp; The problem with a tetrarchy is that it only allowed four positions and there were at least half a dozen people who thought they were next.&nbsp; In math, 2+2 and 3+1 both equal 4 but that does not hold in politics.&nbsp; Worse, Galerius was faced with 1+5 which did not equal 4 and even had Maximianus quite willing to come out of retirement.&nbsp; There were too many queen bees and not enough workers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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