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Now, today's question comes from evocletian, evocletian, I believe, maybe on Twitter.

It's an ad, so maybe.

I'm not sure.

Oh, sorry, X, not called Twitter anymore.

Anyway, how come we don't have much information on Aurelian and Probus, etc., but Diocletian

is apparently well documented in the history's Augusta.

Okay, so the first thing, Diocletian isn't in the Histories Augusti, or the SHA, the Scripteres,

Historia Augusti.

That essentially gives us the emperors from Hadrian to Numerianus, so

117 AD to 284 just before Diocletian comes to power, which actually Evocletian even is further

to your point. Why don't we hear so much about these other emperors? And of course, there

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