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Could the famous general Stilicho become Emperor of the Western half of the Roman Empire at any point despite his "barbarian" birth? After all, just a few decades later, the similarly barbarian Zeno became emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, with nothing more than his relationship to Emperor Leo the Thracian, who was himself an elderly soldier raised up by the magister militum Aspar, who wanted a a weak emperor. Could Stilicho be like Zeno? Or at least last a decade or longer as magister militium himself in the West?
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