Septimius Severus was probably the most ruthless. He ran the empire as a military dictatorship. His campaigns against the Caledones in what is today lowland Scotland depleted their numbers to the extent that they disappeared altogether as an independent tribal grouping,and the Picts replaced them in the mid 2nd century AD as the dominat tribal grouping in Scotland.
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