Il y a un autre empereur qui était Lyonnais

Cath and I regularly do the Times Daily quiz in friendly competition with our London friends who visited us in Lyon.

One of today’s questions was:

^{11 Which Roman emperor was called “the common enemy of mankind” by Edward Gibbon?}

I didn’t know the answer- which is Caracalla.

I only knew of him for the baths that bear his name in Rome.

So I looked him up and learned he was born in Lugdunum – the Roman name for Lyon just like Claudius.

Caracalla passed a law granting the right of citizenship to every free man in the Empire

But Gibbon called him the common enemy of mankind for his cruelty and erratic behaviour.