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The wall was a good defense as long as Roman soldiers remained to guard it. But in process of time about two centuries after Severus's day the Roman empire itself began to decline, even in the very seat and center of its power; and then, to preserve their own capital from destruction, the government were obliged to call their distant armies home.
After this there would be the gardened court of the palace, with a thin lawn, and a soft little fountain musing in the midst of it, and the sunset light lifting on the wall where the fragments of Septimius Severus's marble map of Rome order themselves in such coherence as archaeology can suggest for them.
They must have spoken Gaelic by Severus's time , whatever their original language; and were long recognised in Galloway, where the hill and river names are Gaelic.
Severus's reign of eighteen years, from 193 to 211, was the only strong one, almost the only one not disgraceful, until 268; by which time the Roman world was in anarchy, split into dozens, with emperors springing up like mushrooms everywhere.
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