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Macrinus is decapitated by soldiers of Elagabalus.

Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Roman Army of Elagabalus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Macrinus Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: seeking refuge/asylum, Direct Consequence: death
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    Level :intrasocial
    Source :Herodian, History of the Empire after Marcus Aurelius 5.4.11 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Chalcedon (Kadıköy)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 3
    Year :A.D. 218
     
    Context :regicide
    Motivation :following orders
    political
    Application :decapitating
    Long-Term Consequence :coronation/inauguration
     
    Original Text :ἐν Χαλκηδόνι γοῦν τῆς Βιθυνίας κατελήφθη, νοσῶν χαλεπώτατα ὑπό τε τῆς συνεχοῦς ὁδοιπορίας συντετριμμένος. ἔνθα αὐτὸν εὑρόντες ἔν τινι κρυπτόμενον προαστείῳ οἱ διώκοντες τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπέτεμον.
     
    Translation :In the end he was captured at Chalcedon in Bithynia suffering severe exhaustion from the continuous travelling. His pursuers found him hiding in a district just outside the city and decapitated him.
     
    Edition :Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume I: Books 1-4. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 454. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
    Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume II: Books 5-8. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 455. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
     
     
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    Created at :2021-02-18 : 11:01:29
    Last changed :2021-03-04 : 08:12:02
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00007838
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