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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aethelred, post: 3277752, member: 81808&quot;]Disagreeing with someone as wise as [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] is a dangerous thing to do, but I am going to very carefully do so in this case.&nbsp; Caracalla and Geta are known to have not gotten along even before the death of their father. In addition, in Imperial times two adult male siblings, cousins et cetera almost always meant trouble, as the old saying goes, &quot;two Ceasars are a Ceasar too many.&quot; I think the curious thing is that both Caracalla and Geta survived as long as they did without one killing the other (and there is little reason to think that Geta wouldn&#039;t have killed Caracalla at some point if Caracalla hadn&#039;t gotten him first). The only reason I can come up with for both brothers surviving for almost a year after the death of Septimius Severus is the restraining influence of their mother Julia Domna. I cannot see how making Geta Caesar would have made him any less of a threat in the eyes of his brother.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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