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b'Synopsis:\\xa0 After Pertinax and his successor are killed in the same year, Severus\\u2019s claim to the Empire is contested by two rivals.\\xa0 \\n\\u201cPertinax was one of those men to whom no exception can be taken, but he ruled only for an exceedingly brief space of time and was then put out of the way by the soldiers.\\u201d \\u2013 Cassius Dio, Rome, Book 73\\n\\u201cThe Pannonian army was at that time commanded by Septimius Severus, a native of Africa, who, in the gradual ascent of private honors, had concealed his daring ambition.\\u201d \\u2013 Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, Chapter 5\\nBloodline Family Tree (c. 193AD):\\nhttps://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/B29_Bloodline.pdf\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'