The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePorter & Coates, 1845 |
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... soldiers were seldom roused to that fatal sense of their own strength , and of the weakness of the civil authority , which was , before and afterwards , productive of such dreadful calamities . Caligula and Domitian were assassinated in ...
... soldiers were seldom roused to that fatal sense of their own strength , and of the weakness of the civil authority , which was , before and afterwards , productive of such dreadful calamities . Caligula and Domitian were assassinated in ...
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... soldiers , who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he should pardon and forget the com petition of Sulpicianus . * It was now incumbent on the Prætorians to fulfil the con ditions of the sale . They placed their new sovereign ...
... soldiers , who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he should pardon and forget the com petition of Sulpicianus . * It was now incumbent on the Prætorians to fulfil the con ditions of the sale . They placed their new sovereign ...
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... soldiers ' pay one fourth , must have raised the Prætorians to 960 drachmæ , ( Gronovius de Pecuniâ Veteri , 1. iii . c . 2. ) These successive augmentations ruined the empire ; for , with the soldiers ' pay , their numbers too were ...
... soldiers ' pay one fourth , must have raised the Prætorians to 960 drachmæ , ( Gronovius de Pecuniâ Veteri , 1. iii . c . 2. ) These successive augmentations ruined the empire ; for , with the soldiers ' pay , their numbers too were ...
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THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN AND HIS THREE ASSOCIATES MAXIMIAN | l |
THE EXTENT AND MILITARY FORCE OF THE EMPIRE IN THE AGE | 1 |
D | 7 |
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