[quote='Minimalist' pid='102174' dateline='1288298272']
But he didn't get there by being a pussy.
Well, he sort of did, by Roman standards of pussiness. He was never worth a damn on the field. Plus he was probably impotent during his reign and never managed to father a second child. In the long run, the expedients he took during his reign was more or less responsible for the permanent, institutionalized state of dubious legitamcy of the western Imperial throne, and the eventually fatal geographic vulnerability of the Northwestern frontier. So I am not sure if I would call him the best. I might have called Trajan or Hadrian better, maybe even Diocletian.
Quote:How can you say that? Octavian was perhaps THE best Emperor Rome ever had.
But he didn't get there by being a pussy.
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Well, he sort of did, by Roman standards of pussiness. He was never worth a damn on the field. Plus he was probably impotent during his reign and never managed to father a second child. In the long run, the expedients he took during his reign was more or less responsible for the permanent, institutionalized state of dubious legitamcy of the western Imperial throne, and the eventually fatal geographic vulnerability of the Northwestern frontier. So I am not sure if I would call him the best. I might have called Trajan or Hadrian better, maybe even Diocletian.
