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My father had adopted him and raised him to share his throne. But Severus could not divide the rule with any man. "When I was nine years old I saw, after the battle of Lugdunum, the dead face of Albinus's head; it was set up in front of the Curia on a lance. "I now was the second personage in the empire, next to my father; the first among the youth of the whole world, and the future emperor.
My father had adopted him and raised him to share his throne. But Severus could not divide the rule with any man. "When I was nine years old I saw, after the battle of Lugdunum, the dead face of Albinus's head; it was set up in front of the Curia on a lance. "I now was the second personage in the empire, next to my father; the first among the youth of the whole world, and the future emperor.
My father had adopted him and raised him to share his throne. But Severus could not divide the rule with any man. "When I was nine years old I saw, after the battle of Lugdunum, the dead face of Albinus's head; it was set up in front of the Curia on a lance. "I now was the second personage in the empire, next to my father; the first among the youth of the whole world, and the future emperor.
The futility of Albinus's efforts was so pronounced a futility all the more impressive from the intensity of his preparations and his excessive eagerness to reach the field of action that people ignorant of the conditions of the campaign began again to whisper the perpetual suspicion of collusion with the king.
The suspicion might not have been avoided even by a commander who declined negotiation; but Albinus's case had been rendered worse by his unsuccessful efforts to play with a master of craft, and it was with a reputation greatly weakened from a military, and slightly damaged from a moral, point of view that he brought the campaign to a close, sent his army into winter quarters, and left for Rome to preside at the electoral meetings of the people.
The senate's decision left Albinus free to act and to make use of the new military forces that he had so strenuously prepared. But a sudden hindrance came from another quarter. Some tribunes expressed the not unreasonable view that a commander of Albinus's record should not be allowed to expose Rome's last resources to destruction.
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