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His Brother And Colleague: Caracalla was a cruel and dissolute man— in 212, for example, he murdered, with many others, his brother and colleague Publius Septimius Geta—and his reign was marked by many excesses. On the frontiers he campaigned against the Alamanni (q.v.), in 213, and against the Goths (q.v.) on the lower Danube, in 214; in 216 he annexed Armenia. In the following year he was assassinated while leading an expeditio against the Parthians. Armenia was given up b his successor, Marcus Opelius Macrinus, wh was defeated by the Parthians. Heliogabah (Elagabalus), who succeeded Macrinus in 21! had a short and dissolute reign, and in 222, Mai cus Aurelius Alexander Severus came to th throne.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
"It's just how great Barbaro is,'' Brother Derek's trainer Dan Hendricks said.
Barbaro is the even-money favorite for the shortest of the Triple Crown races. Brother Derek, the talented California-bred who finished in a dead heat for fourth at the Derby, is the second choice at 3-1, with Sweetnorthernsaint at 4-1 off his seventh-place Derby finish. |
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