id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9206 Maximian - Wikipedia .html text/html 8626 968 63 Potter suggests that they were more than peasants, seeking either Gallic political autonomy or reinstatement of the recently deposed Carus (a native of Gallia Narbonensis, in what would become southern France): in this case, they would be defecting imperial troops, not brigands.[42] Although poorly equipped, led and trained – and therefore a poor match for Roman legions – Diocletian certainly considered the Bagaudae sufficient threat to merit an emperor to counter them.[43] Maximian has been implicated in a massacre of Coptic Christian troops from the headquarters unit of a legion raised in Thebes at Aucanus in modern Switzerland in early 285, during the preparations for the campaign against the Bagaudae.[44] The succession did not go entirely to Maximian's liking: perhaps because of Galerius' influence, Galerius' former army comrade Severus and Galerius' nephew Maximinus (both of whom had long military careers) were appointed Caesar, thus excluding Constantine and Maxentius.[125] Maximian quickly soured to the new tetrarchy, which saw Galerius assume the dominant position Diocletian once held. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9206.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9206.txt