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en-wikipedia-org-7692		Maximinus Thrax - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4139	583	63	His background was, in any case, that of a provincial of low birth, and he was seen by the Senate as a barbarian, not even a true Roman, despite Caracalla's edict granting citizenship to all freeborn inhabitants of the Empire.[11] According to the Augustan History, he was a shepherd and bandit leader before joining the Imperial Roman army, causing historian Brent Shaw to comment that a man who would have been "in other circumstances a Godfather, [...] became emperor of Rome."[12] In many ways, Maximinus was similar to the later Thraco-Roman emperors of the 3rd–5th century (Licinius, Galerius, Aureolus, Leo the Thracian, etc.), elevating themselves, via a military career, from the condition of a common soldier in one of the Roman legions to the foremost positions of political power.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7692.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7692.txt