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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7726032, member: 19463&quot;]I can&#039;t recall previously having read a spin on 193 that cast DJ as the hero and we never can know the whole truth with certainty.&nbsp; I do have to wonder if Septimius Severus and Pescennius Niger would have accepted Sulpicianus as the new emperor or would one or both marched on Rome anyway.&nbsp; There is a lot of hidden history here leaving questions as to who Pertinax Junior lived until after Septimius died and what happened to Didia Clara.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This is another question.&nbsp; At what point in Roman history did the Senate stop being a practical and significant factor in history?&nbsp; They had power only as far as the emperor allowed and much of that power came from a desire not to be the one who put the final nail in the Republican coffin.&nbsp; Septimius Severus established a few &#039;new rules&#039; based on the fact that a pile of legions can serve effectively as personal protection for the emperor.&nbsp; Certainly he established the Senate as a rubber stamp if they had not already been that way.&nbsp; We could ask as well when Rome the city stopped being the be-all, end-all of Rome, the empire.&nbsp; Is the &#039;real&#039; capitol where the Senate sits or does it travel&nbsp; with the emperor?&nbsp; When I was young, history was a matter of who, what and when; today we are more concerned with why and how.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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