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Hello, and welcome to the history of roam.

Episode 104, here comes the sun.

So I need to start this week with a brief correction.

In the episode before last, while I was discussing Septimius Severus' campaign in Caledonia,

I mentioned that one of the lasting consequences of the war was that Severus helped reconstruct Hadrian's wall,

leading the Romans to actually call it the Severan wall.

This is not true at all.

What he actually did was reoccupy and reconstruct the Antenine wall, which had been abandoned around the time Marcus Aurelius became emperor.

Roman historians did their after-called this fortification the Severan wall, but they never, ever called Hadrian's wall that,

because Severus never ordered any major reconstruction of Hadrian's wall.

Sorry for the mix-up, and thanks to Lane Brown for bringing this flood to my attention in the comment section.

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