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This week, Tacitus.

Tassetus. Hello!

We're halfway through.

Halfway through, sort of, roughly, depending on how we approach the end.

Yeah.

So, halfway through. You should probably do the introduction. Yeah. Hello, welcome to Roman Emperors to Has Rankium. I am Jamie. And I'm Rob, ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus. This is episode 44 Tacitus. Who I always thought it was Tacticus. Yeah, but it's not. Well, I don't know.

Because who knows what they said back then?

Well, they probably pronounced it Steve.

You could say.

I remember Steve.

We are halfway through, as you've gathered, sort of.

I don't think it's 88 episodes, though.

Well, we'll look back.

We're working out. We're roughly halfway through Find out it's brilliant. And because of that, at the end of this episode, we're going to have a mini review of all the emperors so far. Well, actually, that's a lie. It's going to be at the end of the next episode for policing reasons. Yes. Because there's not much to say about Tastus, but there's even less to say about his successor. Fair enough. So you have time to fill? Yeah, time to fill. That's why I'm still waffling now. No, that's fine. But also, there's a good thing, Friday the 20th of January, this year, so yesterday when you're listening. Or tomorrow now. or tomorrow now. It's Gordion 3's birthday. Oh, nice. And he's quite happy. He's just got a new Lego set from his mum. Excellent. How old is he? Very. Not enough. I'll get caught on that trap again. No. Right, okay. Let's go into Taster, shall we? I'm expecting big things. After, you know, Eredians building up the empire, it's going to be fantastic. Yeah, I know. I mean, there's only one place to go now, isn't that? Yeah, well, however, experience tells me when we do a double episode, it's not normally a good empire. Yeah. We'll see, shall we? Yeah. Orelian's dead. He is, he's well dead.

Yes. So let's look at the aftermath first.

If you remember, there wasn't an obvious successor, was there, when Eurelian died?

No. No.

No. So, picture Orelian, he's in his tent.

Yes. Dead. Knives sticking out of his head. A group of men stood over his body and suddenly it dawns on them that they had just killed

the most popular and capable emperor in living memory.

She said it as a massive, oh, God, what have we done?

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