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Diocletian’s court

AD 286 — The empire is re-founded from Nicomedia, not Rome: four emperors, twelve dioceses, a doubled army, taxes in kind. The price of survival is a heavier state.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Diocletian and Constantine in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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