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PUBLIUS SEPTIMIUS See also:GETA (189-212) , younger son of the See also:Roman See also:emperor Septimius See also:Severus, was See also:born at See also:Mediolanum (See also:Milan) . In 198 he received the See also:title of See also:Caesar, and in 209 those of Imperator and See also:Augustus . Between him and his See also:brother Caracail , there existed from their See also:early years a keen rivalry and antipathy . On the See also:death of their See also:father in 211 they were proclaimed See also:joint emperors; and after the failure of a proposed arrangement for the See also:division of the See also:empire, See also:Caracalla pretended a See also:desire for reconciliation . He arranged a See also:meeting with his brother in his See also:mother's apartments, and had him murdered in her arms by some centurions . Dio See also:Cassius lxxvii . 2; Spartianus, Caracalla, 2; Herodian iv . 1 . |
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