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Summer, 270 AD. The plague has just killed one of Rome's greatest emperors. His brother Quintillus steps into the void — Senate-approved, legally legitimate, and almost immediately irrelevant.
Because somewhere on the Danube, the legions have already chosen someone else.
Aurelian doesn't negotiate. He marches.
What follows is a brutal lesson in the difference between a throne given by politicians and one seized by soldiers. Quintillus had the law. Aurelian had the swords. In the Roman Empire of 270 AD, only one of those things mattered.
Reconstructed from rare surviving coinage and the fragmented records of the Historia Augusta, this is the forensic story of a reign so short history nearly erased it — and the ruthless machinery of power that made sure it stayed that way.
The Senate gave him the purple. The army gave him seventeen days.
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