08-20-2012, 07:47 PM
Tim.
I think it might have been a situation where Albinus being also a north African felt that he trusted a fellow countryman who had got him off the hook with his soldiers for a while.
Then after Severus had delt with Persennius Niger poor Clodius had to follow up what his soldiers had wanted him to do about a year earlier, but sadly Albinus had to get his 40,000 or so troops over the channel and also a long march.
I think it might have been a situation where Albinus being also a north African felt that he trusted a fellow countryman who had got him off the hook with his soldiers for a while.
Then after Severus had delt with Persennius Niger poor Clodius had to follow up what his soldiers had wanted him to do about a year earlier, but sadly Albinus had to get his 40,000 or so troops over the channel and also a long march.
Brian Stobbs