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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4515531, member: 19463&quot;]If requiring the person to have ruled the entire empire is your requirement then there are only about half of the names left on the list after Diocletian.&nbsp; Most people collect the Gallic and British separatists as legitimate to a point because they were successful.&nbsp; That brings us to the question of Pescennius Niger.&nbsp; He was every bit as legitimate as Septimius Severus when he volunteered to replace Pertinax and unseat Didius Julianus.&nbsp; The difference was that Septimius won and eliminated the part of the Senate that supported the wrong volunteer.&nbsp; He lasted longer than Pertinax or Didius so maybe we can eliminate all of them and save a lot of money.&nbsp; However, if we eliminate all emperors who told the Senate they were in charge rather than being duly &#039;elected&#039; we have rather few left.&nbsp; Come to think of it, Constantine the Great was something of a usurper in the minds of the previous Augusti but no one can deny that he, like Septimius Severus, won.&nbsp; There is no black and white here.&nbsp; We each can make our own decisions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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