"While we were engaged in voting eulogies to Euodus, Severus restrained us by saying: "It is disgraceful that in one o…"

"Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn everybody else."

"You see by what has happened that we are superior to you in intelligence, in size of army, and in number of supporter…"

"Let no one charge us with capricious inconsistency in our actions against Albinus, and let no one think that I am dis…"

"..Auspex was the cleverest imaginable man for jokes and chit-chat, for despising all mankind, gratifying his friends,…"

"Severus has been acclaimed as 'the black emperor'. The fact that Severus was African has been cited as evidence that …"

"The following is the style of life that Severus led in time of peace. He was sure to be doing something before dawn, …"

"..no other Emperor was ever so greedy for gold."

"THEN Severus entered Rome with all the rest of his army under arms: his presence in the city brought fear and panic t…"

"Of colonial heritage, Severus was undoubtedly a mixture of Punic, Berber and Roman blood."