Nothing says Christmas like power-hungry Roman plots for the throne!

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Source/Further reading:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Historia_Augusta/Pertinax*.html#1

https://www.livius.org/articles/person/pescennius-niger/

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG140728

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/emperor-septimius-severus-dies-york