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<p>[QUOTE="Shea19, post: 7663125, member: 90981"]It's fun to speculate about what really happened to Numerian, but the information is so unreliable that it's really hard to know. The idea that Diocletian set things in motion and then used Aper as a fall guy definitely does make a lot of sense. But it's not crazy to think that Aper may have seen an opportunity for him to take out his boss and try to take over as emperor himself. He certainly wouldn't have been the first Praetorian prefect to try a maneuver like that...this era is filled with power-hungry officials who got themselves killed with incredibly stupid and reckless political calculations. Whatever actually happened, Diocletian definitely played his hand perfectly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shea19, post: 7663125, member: 90981"]It's fun to speculate about what really happened to Numerian, but the information is so unreliable that it's really hard to know. The idea that Diocletian set things in motion and then used Aper as a fall guy definitely does make a lot of sense. But it's not crazy to think that Aper may have seen an opportunity for him to take out his boss and try to take over as emperor himself. He certainly wouldn't have been the first Praetorian prefect to try a maneuver like that...this era is filled with power-hungry officials who got themselves killed with incredibly stupid and reckless political calculations. Whatever actually happened, Diocletian definitely played his hand perfectly.[/QUOTE]
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