id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1094 Valerius Severus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1682 312 60 Flavius Valerius Severus (died September 307), also Severus II,[2] was a Roman emperor from 306 to 307. Severus was of humble birth, born in Northern Illyria around the middle of the third century AD.[3][4] He rose to become a senior officer in the Roman army,[3] and as an old friend of Galerius, that emperor nominated Severus as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire. That dancer, that habitual drunkard who turns night into day and day into night?" Galerius persisted, saying that Severus has served faithfully as paymaster and purveyor of the army.[5] Diocletian acquiesced and Severus succeeded to the post of Caesar on 1 May 305.[6] He thus served as junior emperor to Constantius I (Constantius Chlorus), Augustus of the western half of empire.[3] When Maxentius, the son of the retired emperor Maximian, revolted at Rome, Galerius sent Severus to suppress the rebellion. Media related to Flavius Valerius Severus at Wikimedia Commons Constantine III with son Constans II ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1094.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1094.txt