to the rank of caesar , with the government of Syria and Aegyptus . Photo at:http://www.livius.org/a/2/emperors/daia_coin.jpg  http://www.livius.org/  In 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus , Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("sons of the Augusti"), but Maximinus probably started styling himself after Augustus during a campaign against the