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[The following discussion relates to when this page was called Year of the Six Emperors.]
Should this page really be called year of the six emperors? There were really only five. Flavius Sulpicianus never actually asserted any claim to the title, he just bidded in an auction and lost, and played no further part, unlike the other five who all claimed the purple. Since there is already another year of six emperors (238), which deserves its own article, I suggest moving this page to "Year of the Five Emperors." Comments? Richard75 19:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Moved. See Year of the Six Emperors for 238. Richard75 22:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"Auction" does not really cover the prolonged bargaining, threats, promises and backstairs diplomacy of the competing bids for Imperial power. It's become a set fixture of popular imagination and historical works. Too good to resist, I suppose - not to mention (though I will) that wonderful jumping-up-and-down "orgy" that finishes off Mann's "The Fall of the Roman Empire" to a background of "I'll give you ten million!" "No, I'll pay twenty million". Brilliant stuff, and I'm sorry to misquote... Anyway, I'll do something about it, and drop some citation in at the same time. Haploidavey ( talk) 20:53, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I cannot seem to find the location of the missing </ref> at the end of a citation. If someone could figure this out it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Klemm8 ( talk) 06:10, 17 December 2013 (UTC)Klemm8
Under the section "Fall of Commodus", it states that Commodus' sanity began to unravel after the assassination of his close advocate, Cleander. However, on both Commodus' page describing the events and on Cleander's page talking about his own death it's very blatant that Cleander is not assassinated but instead put to death by Commodus himself. The original author could have been intending to talk about Saoterus, but there's no proof of this information. I'm petitioning to have the sentence removed from the "Fall of Commodus" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.153.161 ( talk) 20:08, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
I notice that the entry under Clodius Albinus here differs in many details from what is in the Clodius Albinus article. Geoffrey.landis ( talk) 14:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Year of the Five Emperors appeared on Wikipedia's
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[The following discussion relates to when this page was called Year of the Six Emperors.]
Should this page really be called year of the six emperors? There were really only five. Flavius Sulpicianus never actually asserted any claim to the title, he just bidded in an auction and lost, and played no further part, unlike the other five who all claimed the purple. Since there is already another year of six emperors (238), which deserves its own article, I suggest moving this page to "Year of the Five Emperors." Comments? Richard75 19:47, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Moved. See Year of the Six Emperors for 238. Richard75 22:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
"Auction" does not really cover the prolonged bargaining, threats, promises and backstairs diplomacy of the competing bids for Imperial power. It's become a set fixture of popular imagination and historical works. Too good to resist, I suppose - not to mention (though I will) that wonderful jumping-up-and-down "orgy" that finishes off Mann's "The Fall of the Roman Empire" to a background of "I'll give you ten million!" "No, I'll pay twenty million". Brilliant stuff, and I'm sorry to misquote... Anyway, I'll do something about it, and drop some citation in at the same time. Haploidavey ( talk) 20:53, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I cannot seem to find the location of the missing </ref> at the end of a citation. If someone could figure this out it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Klemm8 ( talk) 06:10, 17 December 2013 (UTC)Klemm8
Under the section "Fall of Commodus", it states that Commodus' sanity began to unravel after the assassination of his close advocate, Cleander. However, on both Commodus' page describing the events and on Cleander's page talking about his own death it's very blatant that Cleander is not assassinated but instead put to death by Commodus himself. The original author could have been intending to talk about Saoterus, but there's no proof of this information. I'm petitioning to have the sentence removed from the "Fall of Commodus" section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.153.161 ( talk) 20:08, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
I notice that the entry under Clodius Albinus here differs in many details from what is in the Clodius Albinus article. Geoffrey.landis ( talk) 14:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)