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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2616572, member: 76194&quot;]Oh, the ancient Romans saw this guy in the same way we would see a Transformer if it were to become leader of the US...a ruthless alien oppressor. It was bad enough that he was the first true Barbarian emperor (something that would become more common in later decades) but to make things worse, Maximinus Thrax appears to have come straight from a mud hut into the Roman Army and then into ultimate power. In other words no shred of noble blood, not even noble barbarian blood. That the Senate could not stomach. It&#039;s bad enough to be a Barbarian emperor of foreign kingly stock, but a barbarian pig farmer and warrior raised in a mud hut becoming the Emperor after murdering a well liked Emperor, that was bound to end in disaster and civil war.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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