Portal:Ancient Rome/Did you know/3

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  • ...Among the Roman emperors, the period of the five good emperors was particularly notable for the peaceful method of succession, a practice that became scarse within the later days of the Empire?
  • ...That the Pater familias of a family, had the power to sell his children into slavery?
  • ...That Trajan was the last Roman Emperor to harry the coast of Arabia with the Roman Navy?

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...Trajan was born at Italica, in Spain and adopted by the Roman Emperor Nerva and made his heir, which entitled Trajan to call himself the son of Nerva