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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4373684, member: 19463&quot;]Rome had entered a period where the question arose whether it was better to select the next emperor by blood or by blood-thirstyness.&nbsp; Selecting children gave us Commodus, Caracalla, and Elagabalus.&nbsp; The other route made the mob with swords&nbsp; the defacto rulers until Carus again tried the pick-a-kid method requiring Diocletian to bring some order to the situation.&nbsp; That eventually led to Constantine I who thought his kids could get along and rule well when he was gone.&nbsp; This is the definition of &#039;slow-learner&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Vespasian was really the only emperor who had a son capable of being emperor and he died too soon.&nbsp; If we accept the theory that Titus&#039;&nbsp; last words &quot;I have made but one mistake&quot; referred to not killing Domitian,&nbsp; we can write off all Roman history to a time when the state would have been better off requiring all emperors to be childless. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Who disagrees?&nbsp; What other biological children of emperors brought honor to the office?&nbsp; Constantius II?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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