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I have recently been listening to the "The History of Rome" podcast by Mike Duncan and during one of the episodes of Marcus Aurelius it was mentioned that the emperor Commodus had an older twin by the name of Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus who died at age four.

So what I was wondering was what would the effects have been if Titus survived to become Emperor of Rome instead of Commodus. Of course due to the early death of Titus next to nothing is known about him or his future personality, but what I would like to know is what could someone an emperor who took more after his father Marcus Aurelius do in the cicumstances that Commodus faced.

So what would the effects of a competent emperor have been, would it have prevented the Crisis of the 3rd Century?
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