"Mike stone" <mwstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Yeechang Lee" <ylee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> Rich Rostrom wrote:
>> > Governor Quietus will not take it seriously,
>>
>> As you and others have pointed out, Quietus will almost certainly
>> declare himself Emperor, because of the long, long, long history of
>> other governors of Britain doing the same.
>
>Iirc, as of AD100 there hadn't been one in Britannia. Galba had started
from
>Spain, Vitellius from the Rhine, and Vespasian from Syria. But I agree
that
>Quietus would probably declare himself Caesar. How long he would keep the
>title depends on how much personal loyalty he enjoyed among his officers
and
>men.
Probably not "Caesar", but "Dictator"
or something similar. This is a totally
weird situation - Britannia is a fragment,
a lifeboat in a stormy and uncharted sea.
Quietus is the man in charge. There is no
Caesar, so he must assert a greater role,
but there is no Rome, so "Caesar" doesn't
fit.
ISTM that the Romans will be less concerned
with ambitions than with survival for quite
a while. There would be no move to replace
Quietus unless he was clearly incompetent
(either by lack of ability, or because the
situation was just too much to deal with
and he became stunned).
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