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Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus
- Cassius Dio says the praetorians only arrested Pertinax’s killers before reporting to Silius Messalla; their execution came later under Septimius Severus.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probus_(emperor)
- The rebel in Britain is described in the source tradition as a Roman governor/usurper, not a British "king."
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax
- This is inaccurate because Gordian III was not proclaimed emperor against Maximinus. He was appointed Caesar during the revolt and only became sole Augustus after Pupienus and Balbinus were killed later in 238.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_the_Arab
- Philip was not born in a place called Philippopolis. Sources say he was born at Shahba, and that the site was only renamed/founded as Philippopolis after he became emperor in 244.
- This overstates the 244 peace terms. Sources say Philip paid a large indemnity, but Upper Mesopotamia remained in Roman hands; Armenia is more accurately described as a renounced Roman protectorate, not a simple cession of both Armenia and Mesopotamia.
- Philip II was already Augustus before the millennium celebrations of 248. Sources date his elevation to co-ruler to 247, not to the celebrations themselves.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebonianus_Gallus
- This raid is misplaced in time. Standard references date the Gothic destruction of Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis to 262 CE, during the reign of Gallienus, not during Trebonianus Gallus’s reign, which ended in August 253.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallienus
- This dates Saloninus's elevation too early. He was still Caesar in July 260 and is dated by academic and museum sources to have taken the title Augustus in autumn 260, at Cologne.
- This caption misidentifies the legion and even the coin legend. The coin shown is for Legio V Macedonica and reads LEG V MAC, not LEG VII MAC.
- Valerian’s capture is normally dated to 260, not 259. Sources on Gallienus’s peace toward Christians place it after Valerian’s disappearance in autumn 260 or later.
- This conflates Gallienus’s cavalry reform with the later comitatenses. Gallienus is credited with creating a mobile cavalry corps, but comitatenses were the later late-Roman field armies and were not primarily cavalry units.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus
- The Severan dynasty was founded by Septimius Severus himself, not by his sons after his death.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Gothicus
- With a birth date of 10 May 214, a death in August or September 270 would make Claudius about 56, not 55.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)
- Gallienus did not first become emperor in 260. He had already been emperor alongside Valerian from 253; 260 was the year he became sole emperor.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrinus
- Elagabalus was already proclaimed emperor by rebel troops in mid-May 218, weeks before Macrinus was defeated at Antioch on June 8, 218.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decius
- This date is wrong. Valerian’s persecution began in 257, not 253, with a second edict in 258.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilianus
- This misreads the Epitome de Caesaribus. In that text, the Girba/Meninx birthplace clause refers to Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus, while Aemilian is described separately only as "a Moor by origin."
- Valerian is usually placed in Raetia and Noricum at this point, not as governor of the Rhine provinces. Ancient and modern sources describe him as operating in Raetia/Noricum and bringing troops from Gaul and Germany.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus
- Reliable histories place Albinus’s initial acclamation in Britain, not Hispania. Spanish support appears later, when he revolted against Severus and moved into Gaul.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florianus
- The campaign against the Goths was fought in Asia Minor/Anatolia, not Pannonia. Reliable modern summaries place Tacitus and Florian in the East, where the Goths had overrun Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Cilicia.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintillus
- This is incorrect: Quintillus himself is attested with the title *Pontifex Maximus*, so that image/title was not abandoned in his reign.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:26 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_(emperor)
- This gets Tacitus’s consulships wrong. Modern prosopographical and numismatic evidence identifies his attested consulships as 273 and 276, and historians reject the Historia Augusta’s account of an earlier career under Valerian as fictitious.
- Modern evidence does not support Tacitus being elected at Rome after a reluctant return from retirement in Campania. The best sources and coin evidence indicate he was proclaimed by the army first and only later recognized by the Senate.
- There is no solid evidence that Tacitus legally restored sweeping constitutional powers to the Senate. Modern historians treat this senatorial-restoration story as an unhistorical product of the Historia Augusta.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:25 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva
- This overstates what Cassius Dio says. In the surviving text of Dio's Book 68, he does not explicitly identify Nerva as an "Italiot"; he only says Trajan was a Spaniard rather than "an Italian or Italot."
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
- This mixes up two different renamings. Ancient and modern sources say Commodus renamed Carthage "Alexandria Commodiana Togata," while the African grain fleet was called "Commodiana Herculea."
- Commodus was 15, not 16, when he became consul and was elevated to co-ruler.
- The Commodus season of Roman Empire: Reign of Blood premiered in 2016, not 2017.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius
- This is wrong for Faustina the Elder. She was deified in 141, during Antoninus Pius’s own reign, and the temple was only rededicated to include Antoninus after his death in 161.
- Antoninus Pius was not the last Roman emperor to receive diplomatic recognition from India. Later sources record Indian embassies to Constantine, Julian, and Justinian.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:23 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus
- Titus is not generally recorded as dying at Naples. Ancient and modern reference sources place his death at Aquae Cutiliae in the Sabine country, near Reate (modern Rieti).