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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1306593, member: 19463&quot;]The most interesting part to me is that Aurelian defeated Zenobia and took her back to Rome as a captive.&nbsp; Vaballathus died on the way.&nbsp; Aurelian then gave her a villa and allowed her to live out her life as a Roman.&nbsp; At first thought, I wondered if the death of her son might have reduced her ambitions and she might have realized that living as a ranking Roman might be better than dying as a foreign queen.&nbsp; However Aurelian did the same thing with Tetricus I and II even giving the father a position in the government.&nbsp; Perhaps Aurelian was cut from different cloth than most of his kind.&nbsp; I also note that we have no historical record of either of these two breaking their peace with Aurelian or any who came after him.&nbsp; They may have been killed by Probus, they may have died of disease while Aurelian still reigned...we just don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Hollywood has missed the boat on this one.&nbsp; There is at least one good movie plot here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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