id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3261 Constitution of the Late Roman Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 5831 659 57 Diocletian attempted to reform the imperial system itself into a structure in which four emperors, consisting of two Augusti and two Caesares, each governed one fourth of the Empire.[4] Known as the Tetrarchy, this constitutional structure, however, failed to even outlast Diocletian, who lived to see the collapse of his system and the civil wars that followed in his retirement after abdication in AD 305. Diocletian's civil and military divisions of the empire remained in effect with little change though Upper Egypt from the mid-fifth was governed by a general, the dux, who also exercised civilian authority over the population. The central government general refers to those civil officials directly associated with the Emperor's court and the highest-ranking military officers. Civilian and military administrators of the late Empire were generally ranked as Counts ("comes" meaning "companion [of the Emperor]"). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3261.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3261.txt