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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1253525, member: 19463&quot;]My only comment is that the facts of what happened in the later years of Phillip and early time of Decius is far from certain.&nbsp; You can believe who you wish making either of them a hero or a villain.&nbsp; Most seem to agree that Phillip wanted to abdicate before Decius bailed out the empire by defeating both usurpers and Goths so the story that he was forced to assume power by his soldiers has some possible merit.&nbsp; It is interesting how Pertinax became a reluctant hero while Decius is called treacherous.&nbsp; I suspect a part of this relates to Decius being strongly anti-Christian which colored later histories but we still don&#039;t have uncolored facts.&nbsp; From a Senatorial outlook, Phillip was an outsider and ineffectual so Decius was just correcting a problem they had been having since Maximinus.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to know the latest thinking on the history of the period.&nbsp; IMHO, no one in their right mind would want to be Roman Emperor in those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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