id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7579 Septimius Antiochus - Wikipedia .html text/html 1074 222 61 In 272 AD Emperor Aurelian had defeated the breakaway Kingdom of Palmyra; its king Vaballathus and his mother Zenobia were in Roman captivity. The rebels first approached Aurelian's governor Marcellinus to become emperor, but he pretended to consider the offer as he sent a letter to Aurelian warning of the rebellion.[1] While the rebels were waiting they decided to elevate Septimius Antiochus, the reputed son of Zenobia, to the purple. Roman and Byzantine emperors and ruling empresses Constantine III with son Constans II Constantine IV with brothers Heraclius and Tiberius and then Justinian II as co-emperors Justinian II (second reign) with son Tiberius as co-emperor Leo V the Armenian with Symbatios-Constantine as junior emperor Romanos I Lekapenos with sons Christopher, Stephen and Constantine as junior co-emperors Michael VII Doukas with brothers Andronikos and Konstantios and son Constantine John II Komnenos with Alexios Komnenos as co-emperor ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7579.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7579.txt