| Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree. |
| During the two years before the death of Emperor Septimius Severus, the Roman Empire was run from Eboracum by him. |
| There is evidence that the Emperor Hadrian visited in 122 on his way north to plan his great walled frontier. |
| The duchy was divided in 1180 when Duke Henry the Lion refused to follow his cousin, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, into war in Lombardy. |
| Anyone declaring himself Emperor of San Francisco probably had bats in his belfry. |
| He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul, the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy. |
