Eboracum The Imperial court was based in York until at least 211, in which year Severus died and was succeeded by his sons, Caracalla and Geta. A biographer, Cassius Dio, described a scene in which the Emperor utters the final words to his two sons on his death bed: "Agree with each other, make the soldiers rich, and ignore everyone else." Severus was cremated in Eboracum shortly after his death. Dio described the ceremony: "His body arrayed in military garb was placed upon a pyre, and as a mark of honour the soldiers and his sons ran about it and as
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin the purpose of determining vowel length; that is, the syllable preceding the ending is considered the penult. This last pronunciation of "-os" is the expected one; however, in the masculine accusative plural, where the ending is historically -ōs, the academic prescription was the pronunciation . Such an ending is not found in English loan words or proper names. Latin as traditionally pronounced by English speakers is part of the living history of spoken Latin through medieval French into English. Three stages of development of A-L can thus be distinguished: Latin from the period when its orthography and grammar became standardized