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Caracalla

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Car·a·cal·la  (kr-kl) Real name Marcus Aurelius Antonius. a.d. 188-217.
Emperor of Rome (211-217) who was obsessed with and sought to imitate Alexander the Great. His brutal, undisciplined rule of the empire led to his assassination and left only a legacy of infamy.
Caracalla [ˌkærəˈkælə]
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(Biographies / Caracalla (188-217) M, Roman, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) real name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, original name Bassianus. 188-217 ad, Roman emperor (211-17): ruled with cruelty and extravagance; assassinated


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It seems to me sufficient to take all those emperors who succeeded to the empire from Marcus the philosopher down to Maximinus; they were Marcus and his son Commodus, Pertinax, Julian, Severus and his son Antoninus Caracalla, Macrinus, Heliogabalus, Alexander, and Maximinus.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
Hence it comes likewise, that princes many times make themselves desires, and set their hearts upon toys; sometimes upon a building; sometimes upon erecting of an order; sometimes upon the advancing of a person; sometimes upon obtaining excellency in some art, or feat of the hand; as Nero for playing on the harp, Domitian for certainty of the hand with the arrow, Commodus for playing at fence, Caracalla for driving chariots, and the like.
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Charlotte, unselfish in the Forum, would have tried a sweeter temper than Lucy's, and once, in the Baths of Caracalla, they had doubted whether they could continue their tour.
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