Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Nerva.

Hello and welcome to Talus Rankium.

I am Jamie.

I'm Rob.

This is episode 13 and we are ranking all the emphers from Augustus to Augustulus.

Lucky 13.

Yes.

And it's not 13th, I'm not 13th ever, though?

No, but the 13th episode, so it's all badly, I feel. Oh, dear. Okay. That's a shame. It's nice down. Yes. Lone of your expectations, listeners. Yeah. Right, okay. It's Nerva. It's Nerva. It's Nerva. But we're not going to start with Nerva.

No. Because I forgot to thank a very special person last week. Oh, who? Soutonius. Oh. Yes. Because we have him no more. Soutonius is dead. Well, he's been dead for, you know. Well, he's been dead for quite a Yeah. Yeah, but now we no longer have the 12 Caesars, which I've been drawing heavily from. Oh. Yeah, so, I thought. Sorry, just imagine those listeners when he said, no, Sotonius is dead. And they're going, what? No. No one told me. Yeah. Don't worry. So we're going to have a little section on Soutonius first. And then we'll decide whether he can go and spectate in the Colosseum. So he was born around the year of 69 CE. So that's the year before Empress. Okay. Yeah. We don't know when exactly. It could have been 70. It could have been 68. I think it was 69 right in the middle.

That's nice. The moment Galba was executed. He was...

Yeah. Pop-town.

That was the noise. He just panned over in Rome slightly.

And that's what was going on.

A scene of the city in a...

Yeah.

In the distance. Yeah.

Yeah. So he was born to an equestrian rank family.

His father was a tribune, a military tribune for the 13th Legion.

So he was in charge of all the admin stuff.

Okay.

For the 13th Legion.

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