Both senior Augusti abdicated, appointing Galerius and Constantius as the new senior emperors and Maximinus Daia and Severus as the new Caesars. The fatal flaw, Brownworth notes, was that the plan ignored the ambitious sons of Constantius and Maximian who were passed over.
Also known as: Diocletian and Maximian
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Both senior Augusti abdicated, appointing Galerius and Constantius as the new senior emperors and Maximinus Daia and Severus as the new Caesars. The fatal flaw, Brownworth notes, was that the plan ignored the ambitious sons of Constantius and Maximian who were passed over.
“then with his extraordinary abdication.”
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