ABSTRACT
THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN BEING brought back under imperial control the celebrations began, or would have done so had other crises not supervened on the Rhine, in North Africa and in the border states with the Persian Empire in the east. It was not until November or December 303 that Diocletian and Maximian celebrated the triumph at Rome which was the cumulation of their years of joint reign. By then the victory in Britain had faded and it was the great defeat of the Persian empire which formed the centrepiece of the ceremonies.
