# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:39:57.993Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Leptis Magna in what's now Libya on 11 April 145, Lucius Septimius Severus climbed the Roman cursus honorum under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, waiting his turn. When the emperor Pertinax was killed in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors, Severus emerged from the scrum: he deposed Didius Julianus, crushed rival general Pescennius Niger at Issus in 194, and three years later defeated Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum. With the empire his, he turned outward — sacking the Parthian capital Ctesiphon in 197, annexing Osroene, fortifying the Arabian and Tripolitanian frontiers, and in 202 capturing Garama deep in the Sahara. In 208 he took his sons Caracalla and Geta and his wife Julia Domna to Britain, shored up Hadrian's Wall, and marched 50,000 men into Caledonia. He died of an infectious disease at Eboracum on 4 February 211, leaving his sons a dynasty that would be Rome's last before the Crisis of the Third Century began.