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July 21

- - ante diem XII Kalendas August
Ludi Victoriae Caesaris
Lucaria
A.D. 250 Emperor Maximian born -- maybe. He may not have been born in 250 and the date might have been marked as a natal day for something else: the joint assumption of the titles Jovius and Herculius by Diocletian and Maximian or Maximian's appointment to the position of Caesar. [In Praise of Later Roman Emperors, by C. E. V. Nixon, Barbara Saylor Rodgers]
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