It took forty-six years to dig out the contents of that small property, which included twenty-six graves of prætorians and one hundred and forty-one of civilians.
A regular cemetery of Christian prætorians was found in the spring of the same year by Marchese Francesco Patrizi, in his villa adjoining the prætorian camp.
As midnight approached he awoke, to find that the Prætorians detailed at the gates of the Servilian gardens had retired to their barracks.
In his dealings with the mutinous prætorians the strength of the new emperor's hand was shown at once.
There is a pretty story to the effect that he handed the commander of the prætorians his sword, and said, "Use it for me if I do well, but against me if I do ill.
On the road he heard the tumult of the prætorians cursing his name.
It was said also that Cæsar had gone mad, that he would command prætorians and gladiators to fall upon the people and make a general slaughter.
Here and there they fought hand-to-hand; but the prætorians conquered the weaponless multitude easily.
The prætorians accompanying Vinicius were in the rear.
It was possible even that the prætorians had hurled themselves on the city and were slaughtering at command of Cæsar.
He therefore protested with the greatest energy that the Prætorians would never lay murderous hands on the daughter of Germanicus.
In their ungovernable turbulence, they remind us of the Prætorians of Rome.
The prætorians were no match for the trained legionaries of the frontiers, and did not even attempt to defend their emperor, who was taken prisoner and put to death after a reign of sixty-five days.
He secured the favor of the rabble with the shows of the amphitheatre, and purchased the support of the prætorians with bribes and flatteries.
Ten or twelve cohorts of the Prætorians and a handful of horse.
It was now incumbent on the Prætorians to fulfil the conditions of the sale.
The Prætorians had violated the sanctity of the throne by the atrocious murder of Pertinax; they dishonored the majesty of it by their subsequent conduct.
Their fortified camp was destroyed, and the few Prætorians 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 Prætorians might have rendered it bloody; and Severus had the laudable ambition of ascending the throne without drawing the sword.
He punished the principal informers, banishing many of them to the barren islands around Italy, while he at once, by severe measures, reduced the turbulent Prætorians to obedience.
But the Prætorians were never reconciled to his rule, and on the 28th of March, A.
But the Senators and the people felt deeply the disgrace of their country, and even the Prætorians were ashamed of their unworthy choice.
Elagabalus was murdered by the Prætorians March 10, A.
But the best thing Nerva did was to provide for the curbing of the prætorians by appointing, with the concurrence of the Senate, a most competent man to be his colleague and successor.
These soldiers, instead of remaining servants, became lawless masters, and disposed of the throne as the prætorians at Rome had done.
He never came any nearer to the faith, and after thirteen years of good and firm government he was killed in a mutiny of the Prætorians in 235.
They had only been, as it were, overgrown generals, chosen by the Prætorians or some part of the army, and at the same time taking the tribuneship and other offices for life.
After the death of Nero, the Senate had elected Galba; the prætorians did not find him liberal enough and so they massacred him to set up in his place Otho, a favorite of Nero.
The prætorians brought the latter to the Senate and had him named emperor; later, when he did not pay them, they murdered him.
The prætorians of Rome being dangerous, Diocletian replaced them with two legions.
This was a relative of Caligula; the prætorians made him emperor (it was the emperor Claudius).
After the death of Caligula, some prætorians who were sacking the palace discovered, concealed behind the tapestry, a poor man trembling with fear.
I venture to say that the power of the prætorians is at an end.
To be chained to a Jew was regarded by most of the Prætorians as an intolerable humiliation.
He began to fear lest the Prætorians should find out their mistake in rejecting this princely boy for one who, in spite of his small accomplishments, was so far his inferior.
The Prætorians drew their swords, and in one moment would have slain the criminal who thus dared to blaspheme their human god.
One day, during a visit to the largest prison, she encountered Tigellinus, who was going his rounds with an escort of Prætorians to exult over the multitudes of his victims.
And they knew that many senators and Prætorians were in their favour.
At one time it seemed as if they might break out into violence; but the Prætorians menaced them with their swords, and the angry murmurs died away.
Prætorians to whom in turn he was chained should, as far as possible, be good-tempered and reasonable men.
It was on the evening of June 8 that Nymphidius Sabinus betrayed Nero, and, by the forged promise of an enormous donative, which was never paid, induced the Prætorians to embrace the cause of Galba.
But the Prætorians surrounded the slaves with drawn swords, and armed gladiators, who lined the streets, sternly thrust back the surging mob.
With great peril to himself he had to let the payments of his Prætorians fall into arrears.
Do you think that the Prætorians are absolutely loyal to you?
But on his way he had to pass through the Colline gate, and there he heard the shouts of his Prætorians cheering for Galba and cursing Nero.
He had not dared to get rid of Burrus, whom the Prætorians loved; but he fretted under the restraint of the soldier’s presence, and resented an influence which endeavoured to exert itself for good.
Didius Julianus was murdered after a brief reign of sixty-six days, and the prætorians who had created the scandal were disbanded.
The prætorians rose against the party of Severus, who retired to Ravenna, and soon after committed suicide.
The prætorians supported their claims, and Maximin was assassinated in his tent, A.
The more powerful legions that were quartered in the most important provinces, especially in those of the frontiers, soon began to feel that they were far superior in numbers and strength to the effeminate Prætorians of the capital.
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