Geta

, a man who raised seditions at Rome in Nero’s reign, . Tacitus , Histories , bk. 2 , ch. 72 .――Septimius, a son of the emperor Severus, brother to Car a call a. In the eighth year of his age he was moved with compa ion at the fate of some of the partisans of Niger and Albinus, who had been ordered to be executed; and his father, struck with his humanity, retracted his sentence. After his father’s death he reigned at Rome, conjointly with his brother; but Car a call a, who envied his virtues, and was jealous of his popularity, ordered him to be poisoned; and when this could not be effected, he murdered him in the arms of his mother Julia, who, in the attempt of defending the fatal blows from his body, received a wound in her arm from the hand of her son, the 28th of March, A.D. 212. Geta had not reached the 23rd year of his age, and the Romans had reason to lament the death of so virtuous a prince, whilst they groaned under the cruelties and oppre ion of Car a call a.