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  Roman Emperors - DIR Septimius Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus restored stability to the Roman empire after the tumultuous reign of the emperor Commodus and the civil wars that erupted in the wake of Commodus' murder.
Severus was born 11 April 145 in the African city of Lepcis Magna, whose magnificent ruins are located in modern Libya, 130 miles east of Tripoli.
Severus was tiring of his praetorian prefect's ostentation, which at times seemed to surpass that of the emperor himself.
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  Severus of Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Severus, patriarch of Antioch (AD 512 - 519), a native of Sozopolis in Pisidia, by birth and education a pagan, baptized in the martyry of Leontius at Tripolis (Evagr.
Severus is said to have stirred up a fierce religious war among the population of Alexandria, resulting in bloodshed and conflagrations (Labbe, v.
Severus and his doctrines were anathematized in various councils, while at Alexandria he was gladly welcomed by the patriarch Timotheos III and his other fellow doctrinarists, being generally hailed as the champion of the orthodox faith against the corruptions of Nestorianism.
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 Severus of Antioch's Objection to Chalcedon
Severus was an uncompromising critic of the Council of Chalcedon and the Tome of Leo.
Samuel argues that Severus was not a Monophysite with the statement: ‘Severus never objected to the dynamic continuance of the two natures in the one Christ, and the ascription of the term ‘monophysite’ to his theological position is nothing but the legacy of the polemics of a bygone age’ [6].
[20] Samuel, 'The Christology of Severus of Antioch', 160.
www.monachos.net /patristics/christology/severus_chalcedon.shtml   (4206 words)

  
 SULPICIUS SEVERUS - LoveToKnow Article on SULPICIUS SEVERUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Severus loses no opportunity for laying stress on the crimes and follies of rulers, and on their cruelty, though he once declares that, cruel as rulers could be, priests could be crueller still.
Accordingly we find that Severus, in narrating the division of Canaan among the tribes, calls the special attention of ecclesiastics to the fact that no portion of the land was assigned to the tribe of Levi, lest they should be hindered in their service of God.
In this connection it is interesting to note the account given by Severus of the synod held at Rimini in 359, where the question arose whether the bishops attending the assembly might lawfully receive money from the imperial treasury to recoup their travelling and other expenses.
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 Septimius Severus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Severus was born at Leptis Magna (sixty-two miles southeast of Carthage), on the north coast of Africa, and died at Eboracum (York), Britain.
Severus' family was of equestrian rank, and in 172 he seems to have been made a Senator by Marcus Aurelius.
In general it may thus be said that the position of the Christians under Septimius Severus was the same as under the Antonines; but the law of this Emperor at least shows clearly that the rescript of Trajan had failed to execute its purpose.
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 Severus Alexander, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
Severus Alexander Æ 33mm of Antioch in Pisidia.
Severus Alexander Æ 27mm of Edessa in Mesopotamia.
Severus Alexander, as Ceasar, Billon Tetradrachm of Alexandria.
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 Septimius Severus
Severus ignored all of Julianus' threats and pleas, and shortly before his army's arrival at Rome, Julianus was indeed sentenced to death by the senate and was thereafter killed in his deserted palace.
Severus also trebled the number of the city cohorts (the police of Rome) and doubled the fire brigade (vigiles) in order to increase the city's security.
Severus was in essence a military man. And he and his generals naturally sought military glories.
www.roman-empire.net /decline/sept-severus.html   (1810 words)

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