Septimius Severus advised his heirs to enrich the army and ignore all others

Evidence

how they would react to his last words, quoted ‘exactly and without embellishment’ by Dio: ‘Agree amongst yourselves, enrich the soldiers and despise all the others.’ — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 1212

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 1212