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DIVIDING BRITAIN

It’s fair to say that life for Septimius Severus was far from easy. After all, as one of the five claimants for the title of Roman emperor in 193 CE following the assassination of Commodus, he’d been a key component of a bloody civil war. While he did emerge victorious, trouble was never too far away.

Rivals Pertinax and Didius Julianus had been dispatched to an early grave, but Severus had agreed to share a consulship with his thenally, Clodius Albinus, the governor of Britannia. Severus then went on to defeat Pescennius Niger,

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