35 Decius

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Decius. He took the empire by force, but did he want to? Either way, he is in charge now and he needs to sort out all these problems. Rome is being ravaged by famine, plague, war and death (and the lesser known horseman - economic problems). But fear not! Decius has a plan that will turn everything around... maybe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Decius.
0:13.0	This week, Decius.
0:15.0	Hello, and welcome to Roman emperors to Talus Rankium.
0:26.3	I'm Jamie.
0:26.9	And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.
0:30.4	This is episode 35 marching our way through them.
0:34.4	It's Decius and we still have no sources. Oh. Yeah, Deceus chapters
0:41.3	missing as well. So, uh, light on the sources again. This is obviously where the people
0:46.5	writing it just got a bit, had a bit too much. Yeah. They either couldn't be bothered to write
0:51.9	this part. Yeah. Or one of them who was in charge of taking the manuscripts home that night, got drunk, found a hedge, and lost it. Yeah. Oh well. Yeah. But let's go into Decius, shall we? He was born Gaius, Messius, Quintus, Decius. Messus. Messius. Yeah.
1:11.3	Not voting well.
1:12.2	No.
1:13.0	He was born in 201.
1:14.7	How nice.
1:16.4	Okay.
1:17.3	That's his early life.
1:21.8	When he grew up, he married Herania Otruskler, and he had two sons.
1:27.3	Now, you do need to pay attention to his sons.
1:29.1	Usually I mention sons, and you don't need to pay attention. But these two do come back into the story. One is Horenius. Horenius. And the other one is Hostilian. Well, that's a good name. Yeah, well, both of them, I think. Horanius, Hustilian. they're both pretty strong names aren't they
1:25.5	Sicilian seems like the angry one
1:27.3	Perennian seems the one that looks both of them, I think. Horinius, Hustilian. They're both pretty strong names, aren't they?
1:44.7	Harsilin seems like the angry one. Herrhenian seems the one that looks, just always grumpy.
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