His end was like that of his predecessors.

The Praetorians revolted and murdered him.
FROM ALEXANDER SEVERUS TO THE AGE OF THE THIRTY TYRANTS (222-268).
ALEXANDER SEVERUS was a good man, and well educated.

But he endeavored in vain to check the decline of the state.

The military had become all powerful, and he could effect nothing against it.

During his reign (222-235), the famous baths begun by Caracalla were finished.
Severus was killed in a mutiny led by MAXIMIN, who was Emperor for three years (235-238), and was then murdered by his mutinous soldiers.
GORDIAN, his successor (238-244), was also slain by his own soldiers in his camp on the Euphrates, and PHILIP (244-249) and DECIUS (249-251) both fell in battle.