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... Pertinax , an upright man , a good officer , and an unseasonable reformer ; unseasonable for those times , but more so for himself . Lætus , the ringleader in the assassination of Commodus , had been at that time the prætorian prefect ...
... Pertinax , an upright man , a good officer , and an unseasonable reformer ; unseasonable for those times , but more so for himself . Lætus , the ringleader in the assassination of Commodus , had been at that time the prætorian prefect ...
Side 203
... Pertinax the danger began from the moment when he had fulfilled it . Conceiving himself to be now released from his dependency , he commenced his reforms , civil as well as military , with a zeal which alarmed all those who had an ...
... Pertinax the danger began from the moment when he had fulfilled it . Conceiving himself to be now released from his dependency , he commenced his reforms , civil as well as military , with a zeal which alarmed all those who had an ...
Side 204
... Pertinax attempted to harangue them , and to vindicate himself ; but not being able to obtain a hearing , he folded his robe about his head , called upon Jove the Avenger , and was immediately dispatched . The throne was again empty ...
... Pertinax attempted to harangue them , and to vindicate himself ; but not being able to obtain a hearing , he folded his robe about his head , called upon Jove the Avenger , and was immediately dispatched . The throne was again empty ...
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... Pertinax , Didius Julianus , Septimius Severus , Caracalla , and Geta , Macrinus , Heliogabalus , Alexan- der Severus , Maximin , the two Gordians , Pupienus and Balbinus , the third Gordian , and Philip the Arab . In looking back at ...
... Pertinax , Didius Julianus , Septimius Severus , Caracalla , and Geta , Macrinus , Heliogabalus , Alexan- der Severus , Maximin , the two Gordians , Pupienus and Balbinus , the third Gordian , and Philip the Arab . In looking back at ...
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... Pertinax for the throne on a consideration of his ability to protect the assassins of Commodus . NOTE 50. Page 227 . And it is a striking illustration of the extent to which the revolution had gone , that , previously to the Persian ...
... Pertinax for the throne on a consideration of his ability to protect the assassins of Commodus . NOTE 50. Page 227 . And it is a striking illustration of the extent to which the revolution had gone , that , previously to the Persian ...
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