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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I always thought the best part of the Tetrarchy was a legal foundation to the separation of East and West formalizing a constitutional division in the empire, which allowed the East to still have legitimacy after the West fell. That is it created the frame for a Rome without Rome.

I agree his retirement was, at the most generous, premature. It's like he wanted to play Cincinnatus but the world wasn't ready yet.

Edit: just better writing.