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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7439598, member: 84905"]Hm, but in the third century, the Goths were nowhere near the Rhine, Raetia let alone the Narbonensis. Tacitus must have won the title of Gothicus Maximus at the lower Danube (ie. the western shores of the Black Sear) fighting western Goths, or repelling attacks by Eastern Goths in Asia Minor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose it is possible, that Tacitus based his Gothicus Maximus on victories, which he helped to achieve under Aurelianus, rather than the great Gothic campaign of 276.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7439598, member: 84905"]Hm, but in the third century, the Goths were nowhere near the Rhine, Raetia let alone the Narbonensis. Tacitus must have won the title of Gothicus Maximus at the lower Danube (ie. the western shores of the Black Sear) fighting western Goths, or repelling attacks by Eastern Goths in Asia Minor. I suppose it is possible, that Tacitus based his Gothicus Maximus on victories, which he helped to achieve under Aurelianus, rather than the great Gothic campaign of 276.[/QUOTE]
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