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099- What Evil Have I Done?

The History of Rome

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Saverus and the Pretorian Guard

Saverus finally received that bright feather political men still strove to put in their caps, despite its ultimate irrelevance. Saverus was willing to accept pertinax and so kept his men in check during what had to be at least a ly chaotic period following comedus demise. But julianus Julianus was not to be accepted, nor tolerated, nor even resigned to. Julianus was to be removed. The pretorian guard was abolish. Savarus instituted a new order of pretorians. This one would be four times as large and be made up of provincial soldiers. Rather than a social club for pampered italians, the guard was reconstructed to be the

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