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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7723243, member: 19463&quot;]Didius Julianus married poorly.&nbsp; How anyone possibly could have expected a plan like this to work out well in the long run is wholly beyond me.&nbsp; If Septimius Severus had known that Scantilla had &#039;encouraged&#039; the plan, he should have presented her head to her daughter shortly before killing her, too. Can you name an empress who spent less time &#039;in power&#039; that had coins issued in her name?&nbsp; Wikipedia says, &quot;Within a month of Severus&#039; accession to the throne, Scantilla died in obscurity. The fate of Didia Clara is unknown.&quot;&nbsp; Convenient.&nbsp; That saved Caracalla the trouble when he was killing the family of Pertinax.</p><p><a href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/publius-helvius-pertinax-jr/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livius.org/articles/person/publius-helvius-pertinax-jr/" rel="nofollow">https://www.livius.org/articles/person/publius-helvius-pertinax-jr/</a> </p><p>Sestertius / Fortuna PM TRP COS SC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1323919[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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