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Julius Martialis († 8 April 217) was the assassin of Emperor Caracalla.

Three men were involved in the attack: the evocatus Julius Martialis, who hated the emperor as a result of a demotion, and two praetorian tribunes. During the Roman-Parthian War (216-217), on the road from Edessa to Carrhae, the emperor wanted to visit the famous sanctuary of the moon god Sin . When Caracalla got off his horse on the way to relieve himself , Martialis approached him, seemingly wanting to say something to him. Instead he stabbed him in the back. A Scythian bodyguard of Caracalla killed the fleeing assassin with his lance. The two Praetorian tribunes rushed to the emperor, as if to help him, and completed the assassination. With Caracalla the Severian dynasty died in male line.

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1. see about Caracalla's planned visit to the shrine Frank Kolb: Literarische Beziehungen zwischen Cassius Dio, Herodian und der Historia Augusta, Bonn 1972, pp. 123ff.
2. Dio Cassius 79 (78),5,2-5. See, Herodian and 4.13 Historia Augusta, Caracalla 6.6-7.2. See also Michael Louis Meckler: Caracalla and his late-antique biographer, Ann Arbor, 1994, pp. 152-156.

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