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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7972408, member: 89514"]As I discovered in 1972 and explained in a detailed Forum thread (search for Battle of Lugdunum), the traditional assignment of Septimius' defeat of Albinus near Lugdunum to 19 February 197, occasioning the emperor's IMP VIIII, is an error; actually the battle took place a year earlier, on 19 February 196, and occasioned Septimius' IMP VIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>So Valentinian's Arrival type actually commemorates the emperor's return to Rome in c. summer 196, a couple of months after defeating Albinus at Lugdunum on 19 February of that year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7972408, member: 89514"]As I discovered in 1972 and explained in a detailed Forum thread (search for Battle of Lugdunum), the traditional assignment of Septimius' defeat of Albinus near Lugdunum to 19 February 197, occasioning the emperor's IMP VIIII, is an error; actually the battle took place a year earlier, on 19 February 196, and occasioned Septimius' IMP VIII. So Valentinian's Arrival type actually commemorates the emperor's return to Rome in c. summer 196, a couple of months after defeating Albinus at Lugdunum on 19 February of that year.[/QUOTE]
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