Geta

Publius Septimius Geta (189–211) was the younger son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, born at Rome or Mediolanum. Raised to Caesar in 198, he was made Augustus in late 209 and ruled jointly with his father and elder brother Caracalla.

When Severus died at Eboracum in February 211, the two brothers inherited the empire together, but their long rivalry made joint rule unworkable. In December 211 Caracalla had Geta cut down by centurions in their mother's apartments at a staged reconciliation, then imposed damnatio memoriae and purged some twenty thousand of his followers.