The new Didius Julianus, the chosen of princes baser than the praetorians whom they copied, had neither the character nor the outward power and resources to make himself respected.
The praetorians offered no resistance to the Danubian army; Julianus was deposed by the Senate and put to death (June, 193 A.
And, while up to this time the praetorians had exercised the right of acclamation in the name of the army as a whole, now the legions stationed on the various frontiers asserted for themselves the same privilege.
When Elagabalus sought to rid himself of his relative the praetorians forced him to make Alexander his colleague, and finally murdered him (March, 222 A.
However, his strictness in enforcing discipline among the troops and his economies, necessitated by the exhausted condition of the public finances, soon alienated the goodwill of the praetorians and Laetus himself.
The praetorians were recruited exclusively from the Italian peninsula, and enjoyed a shorter term of service and higher pay than the other corps.
As a supplement to the praetorians Augustus organized three urban cohorts, each originally 1500 strong, who ranked between the legionaries and praetorians.
His horse has shied--he is looking round--the Praetoriansknow his pale face.
When noon had come and passed, and still the Praetorians had not raised the siege by expelling the forces under Clodianus, Domitian once more lost all self-control.
The drifting mob, as it cascaded down, cried: "The Praetorians are coming from their camp!
He can command the praetorians and the household troops--none others.
Surely the Praetorians would rally about me, and I might dissolve the Senate.
The Praetorians themselves, with the sailors of the fleet, knowing that Galba has the reputation of being close fisted, may choose someone who may flatter and feast them as Nero did.
We could even take post close to the hangings of your chamber, just as the Praetoriansguard all the avenues on the other side.
It would be dangerous, Caesar; the praetorians are well affected to your majesty, and in these days when there are so many ambitious generals at the head of armies it would be unwise to anger them.
No; the first thought of Nero will be to assemble all the Praetorians for his protection; they will search the palace and the park, expecting attack rather than thinking of pursuit.
All persons within a certain distance of the fire are recommended to send their wives and families, with their jewels and all portable wealth, to the public gardens, where strong guards of the Praetorians will be posted.
The whole of the Praetorians are under arms, but the terror and confusion is so great and spread over so wide a space that it is well nigh impossible to preserve order.
The praetorians are stubbornly attached to Caligula, because forsooth he wore miniature boots like theirs when he tumbled about in the peplus of an infant.
The praetorians stood by the picked men of the Macedonian phalanx, and with these were all the troops who had escorted the imperial general hither, and the garrisons of the city of Alexander who hoped to be called out in the next war.
On the wide ascent leading to the Serapeum the praetorians stood awaiting Caesar's commands.
The praetorians have slain your friend and servant; I give you that man to make amends for it.
Several maniples of the praetorians and of the Macedonian phalanx were already drawn up in compact ranks, to relieve guard at the gate of the imperial residence, and stand at Caesar's orders.
The praetorians and the Macedonian legion shall be housed in quarters of which they will tell wonders for a long time to come.
The lady shook her head with a bitter smile, and, drawing the soldier aside, she disclosed to him in rapid words her determination to quit this life before the praetorians entered the house.
And yet--the praetorians will go through fire and water for you, if you deliver up this man to them as their booty.
The prefect of thepraetorians had, by the Magian's desire, recommended the Egyptian; but Caesar wished to see for himself, and then to decide.
He had been captured in the impluvium by the praetorians while trying, in the face of every danger, to enter the house where the painter lay, to whose father he had belonged for many years.
As Evocatus he had married the daughter of a free gardener of Seleukus, and when he was ordered to Rome to join the praetorians his wife had obtained the post of superintendent of the merchant's villa at Kanopus.
The lictors and praetorians cleared the way, so there were no convenient halts that could enable him to slip unnoticed through the crowd.
Why didn't she summon the praetorians and hand you over to them?
The praetorians had to form a cordon in front of the gate, and the street became choked by the impeded traffic.
A hint conveyed itself that she could summon the praetorians if he did not answer swiftly.
Footnotes: [414] For the feelings of legionaries and Praetorians towards one another cf.
It is, indeed, always worn by the Praetorians on the Marcus column, but the auxilia still appear in chain-mail as on the column of Trajan.
The phraseology of the diplomata issued to the Praetorians ‘ut etiam si peregrini iuris feminas matrimonio suo iunxerint, proinde liberos tollant ac si ex duobus civibus Romanis natos’—D.
These words the placards of Saint-Arnaud interpreted by decrees, the Praetorians let loose in the street interpreted them by murder.
That gives the sign to the Praetorians Upon the instant of the Emperor's death.
In Baiae no Praetorians are camped, No populace inflamed in her cause; A solitary woman doth she come.
Already can I hear The roar of the Praetorians and their march, This time to crown another.
Now the Gaul mutters: the Praetorians Sullenly snarl.
Say, Burrus, quickly say, how stands our cause With the Praetorians who unmake and make Emperors?
The Praetorians are staunch, And they are marching now upon the Palace.
In less than three months the spoiled Praetorians were offended with the precaution taken by the emperors in surrounding themselves with German guards.
The degraded praetorians then elevated one of the companions of Nero's guilty excesses to the throne in the person of Otho, but resistance was made to their selection.
The Praetorians found they had appointed their master, and put the sword into his hand.
The Praetorians have been thirteen years without the donation consequent on a new accession.
These assertions, however defective in reason, became unanswerable when the fiercePraetorians increased their weight, by throwing, like the barbarian conqueror of Rome, their swords into the scale.
They received with surprise, with indignation, and perhaps with envy, the extraordinary intelligence, that the Praetorians had disposed of the empire by public auction; and they sternly refused to ratify the ignominious bargain.
Tacitus addressed thePraetorians by the appellation of sanctissimi milites, and the people by that of sacratissim.
Dion relates first the death of Ulpian, afterwards, reverting back according to a manner which is usual with him, he says that during the life of Ulpian, there had been a war of three days between the Praetorians and the people.
Their fortified camp was destroyed, and the few Praetorians who had escaped the fury of the sword were dispersed among the legions, and banished to the frontiers of the empire, where they might be serviceable without again becoming dangerous.
His victory was already secure, but the despair of the Praetorians might have rendered it bloody; and Severus had the laudable ambition of ascending the throne without drawing the sword.
The Praetorians had violated the sanctity of the throne by the atrocious murder of Pertinax; they dishonored the majesty of it by their subsequent conduct.
Claudius was obliged to purchase their consent to his coronation: the presents which he made, and those which the praetorians received on other occasions, considerably embarrassed the finances.
It was now incumbent on thePraetorians to fulfil the conditions of the sale.
He induced Claudius to transfer the command of the praetorians to himself for a day.
Each of the two women endeavored to incite the praetorians against the other.
Although the founder of a military monarchy, he yet, with an energy unexampled in history, allowed no hierarchy of marshals or government of praetorians to come into existence.
Nay, Caesar, fly tomorrow, and your Praetorians will see that you are not pursued.
Ten or twelve cohorts of the Praetorians and a handful of horse.
The praetorians also conceived suspicions of the loyalty of Dolabella,[637] a man of patrician family.
It was now determined that Nymphidius should be conducted to the camp of the praetorians at midnight and there proclaimed emperor.
But, two days afterwards Titus Vinius arrived with several other persons, who brought a detailed account of the proceedings both of the praetorians and of the Senate.
But the praetoriansdo not care for him, I suppose?
Tell me exactly; what think the praetorians of Germanicus?
And yet --the praetorians will go through fire and water for you, if you deliver up this man to them as their booty.
These revolutions, of which so much is said, cease to be national, to become merely urban movements; they are no longer an effort of plebeians against patricians, but of one set of praetorians in the capital against another.
If he declines to do so, the armed praetorians of Paris will soon find another foreign minister who will.
The Praetorians are standing with interlocked elbows; they look unpleasantly like samples of a complete cordon round the camp.
Strange to say the crowds seemed to think that they travestied Praetorians to a nicety whereas neither had ever set eyes on a Praetorian and their antics were the product of mere innate whimsicality.
If there happened to be a crafty inspector with the Praetorians and if they have lingered, they might suspect the truth, beat the woods for us and capture us.
Either in the noonday swelter or in the torchlit darkness it ought to be easy to pass from aping, mimicking and burlesquing Praetorians to personating and counterfeiting Praetorians.
When again the Imperial zany and his fan-bearers and posturing eunuchs had passed us and the High Priest and his Acolytes were opposite us, Maternus slipped forward between two of the Praetorians of the escort.
You were seen or betrayed somewhere between Hadria and Auximum, one account said at Ortona, and the Praetorians killed you.
First you were butchered by the Praetorians at Ortona, then you were assassinated by a disgruntled public-slave in the Umbrian Mountains: after two demises here you are, as alive as possible.
They had then set three detachments of Praetoriansto intercept you, one on each road, with watchers to warn them if you were recognized.
But, in the streets, the insolence of the Praetorians was unendurable and their unbridled license and arrogance terrorized the entire population, especially the upper classes.
The mounted Praetorians are behind them not two horse-lengths and less than that apart.
The next day, the ninth day before the Kalends of July, we heard with amazement that the Praetorians had been cowed, had surrendered their standards to Severus and had been disarmed.
He incurred the hatred of the praetorians by scornfully refusing to pay them the reward promised in his name, and disgusted the mob by his meanness and dislike of pomp and display.
His choice was wise and patriotic; but the populace regarded it as a sign of fear, and the praetorians were indignant, because the usual donative was not forthcoming.
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