The Palace and Park by Phillips, Forbes, Latham, Owen, Scharf, and Shenton

[Born at Milan, A.D. 189. Died A.D. 212. Aged 23.] The second son of Septimius Severus. During his second Consulship proceeded to Britain (208) and obtained the surname of Britannicus. Upon the death of his father, he and his brother Caracalla were declared joint successors to the Imperial crown; but Geta, at the instigation of Caracalla, was assassinated in the very arms of his mother, to whom he had fled for refuge. Caracalla caused his brother’s statues to be destroyed, and his inscriptions to be obliterated. Geta was depraved in his habits, and unpolished, but not without some good qualities. [From the marble in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.]