Elagabalus Quote

He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.


Referring to the Emperor Macrinus and his declaration of his son Diadumenianus to be '"Caesar". The head of Diadumenianus was presented to Elagabalus as a trophy. As quoted in Dio's Roman History (1955), as translated by Earnest Cary, p. 439


He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.

He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.

He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.

He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.