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... Diocletian . ˇ Diocletian , the son of a Dalmatian slave , was a statesman rather than a soldier . He styled himself the father of a golden age ' ( parens aurei saeculi ) and was in fact the first to realise that the Empire had become ...
... Diocletian . ˇ Diocletian , the son of a Dalmatian slave , was a statesman rather than a soldier . He styled himself the father of a golden age ' ( parens aurei saeculi ) and was in fact the first to realise that the Empire had become ...
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... Diocletian ' under which there were to be two Emperors assisted by two younger deputies , or Caesars , who would eventually succeed , without conflict , to the throne . He thus raised his old crony Maximian to the rank of Augustus in ...
... Diocletian ' under which there were to be two Emperors assisted by two younger deputies , or Caesars , who would eventually succeed , without conflict , to the throne . He thus raised his old crony Maximian to the rank of Augustus in ...
Page 103
... Diocletian collected and cherished all the rarest vegetables that Europe , Africa and Asia could produce . He was , as Gibbon wrote , more of a statesman than a warrior . The wily Dio- cletian ' was wise to retire in time . He died a ...
... Diocletian collected and cherished all the rarest vegetables that Europe , Africa and Asia could produce . He was , as Gibbon wrote , more of a statesman than a warrior . The wily Dio- cletian ' was wise to retire in time . He died a ...
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