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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4554523, member: 110350&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; Incompetent he may have been, but there&#039;s such a long list of incompetent and ineffectual emperors (such as Honorius, mentioned above) that I wonder how Goldsworthy -- whose novels set in Roman Britain I have read and enjoyed -- makes that judgment.&nbsp; At least he doesn&#039;t seem to be making it based on Elagabalus&#039;s sexual orientation or gender identity, as so many earlier historians did. Look at the previous footnote to the same Wikipedia article:&nbsp; &quot;Niebuhr, B.G. History of Rome, p. 144 (1844). Elagabalus&#039; vices were &#039;too disgusting even to allude to them&#039;&quot;![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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