True or not, Caracalla, pursued by devils of his own, left Rome never to return.

Caracalla left with a punitive expedition, but by the following year his ailing father had died and he and his brother left the province to press their claim to the throne.

In retribution Caracalla then led the Legio II Traiana Fortis against the Alemanni, who lost and were pacified for a time.

Before the mention of Alemanni in the time of Caracalla, you would search in vain for Alemanni in the moderately detailed geography of southern Germany in Claudius Ptolemy, written in Greek in the mid-2nd century ; it is likely that at that time, the people who later used that name were known by other designations.

Alexander's dedication of On Fate to Septimius Severus and Caracalla, in gratitude for his position at Athens, indicates a date between 198 and 209.

Galen compliments Severus and Caracalla on keeping a supply of drugs for their friends and mentions three cases in which they had been of use in 198 AD.

Reigning alone, Caracalla was noted for lavish bribes to the legionaries and unprecedented cruelty, authorizing numerous assassinations of perceived enemies and rivals.

More recent improvements to the GRA have rectified this through the construction of a tunnel under the Appia, so that it is now possible to follow the Appia on foot for about ten miles from its beginning near the Baths of Caracalla.

Caracalla's reign was also notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana ( also called the Edict of Caracalla ), granting Roman citizenship to all freemen throughout the Roman Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian Cassius Dio.

In AD 215 Caracalla savagely responded to this insult by slaughtering the deputation of leading citizens who had unsuspectingly assembled before the city to greet his arrival, and then unleashed his troops for several days of looting and plunder in Alexandria.

Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, Macrinus, who ( according to Herodian ) was most probably responsible for having the emperor assassinated.

* Imperator Destinatus (" Destined to be Emperor "), heir apparent, used by Septimius Severus for Caracalla.

The original Pennsylvania Station was designed by the noted architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White and was modeled on the Roman Baths of Caracalla ; it was notable for its enormous rail shed and the spectacular architecture of the high vaulted ceilings in the passenger terminal.

When the Emperor Caracalla sacked Alexandria ( 215 ) in punishment for their satire directed at him, Origen fled to Caesarea, where the bishops present requested that he give sermons.

The building was repaired by Septimius Severus and Caracalla in 202, for which there is another, smaller inscription.

Their loyalty was extended to Severus ' successor, emperor Caracalla, for whom they fought in 213 a campaign against the Alamanni.

He had certainly been twice consul ; his first consulate is not certainly known but is believed to have been about 203 or in July 211 ; he was consul for the second time in 213 as colleague of Caracalla, which suggests he enjoyed that emperor's favour.

Baths were a site for important sculpture ; among the well-known pieces recovered from the Baths of Caracalla are the Farnese Bull and Farnese Hercules and over life-size early 3rd century patriotic figures somewhat reminiscent of Soviet Social Realist works ( now in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples ).

Records show that the idea for the baths were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime of Caracalla.

The copy was made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome ( dedicated in 216 AD ), where it was recovered in 1546.

According to a letter of Guglielmo della Porta, the head had been recovered separately, from a well in Trastevere, and was bought for Farnese through the agency of della Porta, whose legs made to complete the figure were so well regarded that when the original legs were recovered from ongoing excavations in the Baths of Caracalla, della Porta's were retained, on Michelangelo's advice, in part to demonstrate that modern sculptors could bear direct comparison with the ancients.

Caracalla ( 211-217 ) granted Roman citizenship to all Egyptians, in common with the other provincials, but this was mainly to extort more taxes, which grew increasingly onerous as the needs of the emperors for more revenue grew more desperate.

The Augustan History has the Roman emperor Caracalla venerate Lunus at Carrhae ; this has been taken as a Latinized name for Men.

In AD 213, Caracalla went north to the German frontier to deal with the Alamanni tribesmen who were causing trouble in the Agri Decumates.

It did not include the upper Main, but that is where Caracalla campaigned.

An early form of partial jus soli dates from the Cleisthenes ' reforms, and developed further in the Roman world where citizenship was extended to all free inhabitants of the Empire, especially with the Constitutio Antoniniana ( Edict of Caracalla ).

The sanctuary, which lay between today's piazza della Pilotta and the large square facing Quirinal Palace, was built by Caracalla on the western slopes of the hill, covering over 13, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 3. 2 acres ), as its sides measured 135 m by 98 m. It was composed by a long courtyard ( surrounded by a colonnade ) and by the ritual area, where statues and obelisks had been erected.

A grove sacred to Egeria in connection with Numa stood close by a busy gate of Rome, the Porta Capena, near where the Baths of Caracalla were built in the third century.

Fourteen days later, the 125 S claimed Ferrari's first victory at the Grand Prix of Rome on Caracalla, where it was also driven by Cortese.

This revolt spread to the entire Syrian army ( which, at the time, was swollen with troops raised by the Emperor Caracalla, and not fully loyal to Macrinus ), and eventually they were to win the short struggle that followed by defeating Macrinus at a battle just outside Antioch.

For example, all of Caracalla ’ s campaign in the north during 213 through 214 is condensed into two short allusions.

** Hispania Nova Citerior Antoniniana (" New Hither Hispania of Antoninus "), established by Caracalla from a short time after 211 over the Gallaecian conventi of Bracara, Lucus and perhaps Asturica.

* after 211-The Emperor Caracalla makes a new administrative division which lasts only a short time.

When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them — Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus — to their estate at Emesa in Syria.

During his reign as emperor, Caracalla raised the annual pay of an average legionary to 675 denarii and lavished many benefits on the army which he both feared and admired, as instructed by his father Septimius Severus who had told him on his deathbed to always mind the soldiers and ignore everyone else.

The Roman Empire during the reign of Caracalla.

The Baths of Caracalla () in Rome, Italy were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla.

After the reign of Marcus Aurelius the production of aurei decreased, and the weight was further decreased to of a pound ( 6. 5 g ) by the time of Caracalla.

The theater underwent changes during the Roman period under the reign of Caracalla.

The town had its most glorious years during the reign of Roman Emperors Septimius Severus and Caracalla and became an episcopal seat during the expansion of Christianity.

Book Three encompasses the reign of Septimius Severus from 193 to 211, while the fourth discusses the reign of Caracalla from 211 to 217.

It was revived under the emperor Caracalla, during whose reign the portico around the forum and the odeon were restored, a Mithraeum was constructed in the basement of the Curia, and a sanctuary to Liber erected at the southeast end of the Forum.