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Hint: His beauty was praised even by hostile authors.

 

Gauis Paulinus Maximus!! ;)

 

It didn't say BLIND authors, GPM!

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Hint: His father was the procurator rei privatae of a rich heir from Gaul :D .

Diadumenianus

 

He was the son of Macrinus, who was procurator rei privatae to Caracalla ... who was born in Gaul.

 

And from Historia Augusta:

 

"The boy himself was beautiful beyond all others, ... "

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Hint: His father was the procurator rei privatae of a rich heir from Gaul :) .

Diadumenianus

 

He was the son of Macrinus, who was procurator rei privatae to Caracalla ... who was born in Gaul.

 

And from Historia Augusta:

 

"The boy himself was beautiful beyond all others, ... "

Salve, GM B) .

 

Of corse you're right. Congratulations :D .

 

Your turn :D .

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Hint: His father was the procurator rei privatae of a rich heir from Gaul B) .

Diadumenianus

 

He was the son of Macrinus, who was procurator rei privatae to Caracalla ... who was born in Gaul.

 

And from Historia Augusta:

 

"The boy himself was beautiful beyond all others, ... "

Salve, GM B) .

 

Of corse you're right. Congratulations :D .

 

Your turn :D .

 

Hehe - before G-Man puts up a pic, I would never have got this. I know Diad...Dua...Demi....Dua... whatever his name is, but I can never say it and could never remember how to put the damned thing into Google Images! :)

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Hehe - before G-Man puts up a pic, I would never have got this. I know Diad...Dua...Demi....Dua... whatever his name is, but I can never say it and could never remember how to put the damned thing into Google Images! :no2:

I hear ya. I actually couldn't find a matching picture. I had to use A's clues. Never would have gotten it from the pic alone.

 

Next up:

 

takeyourbestshotpr7.jpg

 

His youth may have played a role in his eventually becoming an orphan.

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Caius (Caligula).

 

No, sir.

 

He also wasn't Abel to stave off his own assassination.

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Britannicus, son of Claudius I.

 

This is a sestercius minted in Thracia, and its legend says "TICLAVDIVSCAESARAUGFBRITANNICUS".

 

bingo.jpg

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Lucius Marcius Philippus!

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That fact that he was sickly since childhood is reputed to have saved his life once.

 

takeyourbestshotdx6.jpg

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