03-28-2006, 03:03 PM
Quote:I purposely omitted Trajan because he was one of the few emperors who was qualified to personally take command of an army and did so.
I understand
S SEVERUS: Marcus allegedly (or perhaps really) thought of establishing two new provinces - Marcomannia (southern area of the Czech Republic and parts of Slovakia) and Sarmatia (basically the Hungarian plain). Commodus was later chastised for not proceeding with this plan, but the empire was most likely just too exhausted for long term territorial gains.
An inscription found near Budapest (from classis Flavia Pannonica) mentiones vexillationes of this fleet in S(armatia?) and? [??? Markomannia???], but the inscription is in a bad condition and should not be overinterpreted...
Florian Himmler (not related!)
