期刊名称：Amphora: A publication of the American Philological Association
出版年度：2008
卷号：7
期号：01
出版社：American Philological Association
摘要：The fatally ill Septimius Severus
ran a hand over the stone urn prepared
for his ashes and said,
“This will contain a man on whom the
entire world set no limits” (Dio Cassius
77.15.4). The geographical facts of his
political and military career justify the
Emperor’s elegiac exaggeration. He was
born in Leptis Magna (coastal Libya);
proclaimed Rome’s master in Upper
Pannonia (along the middle Danube);
fought the Empire’s barbarian foes –
and an occasional Roman rebel – at
Byzantium (later Constantinople, now
Istanbul), in Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq),
Parthia (Iran), Egypt, the northern rim
of the Sahara, central Gaul, and Caledonia
(Scottish Highlands); in early A.D.
211 he died at York (north of England),
and his urn was escorted back to Rome
for burial by his two young sons.
