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098- Purchasing Power

The History of Rome

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After numerous failed attempts, foiled plots and exposed conspiracies, some one finally managed to kill commodus. A young athlete named narcissus had been promised a huge reward by the emperor's inner circle if he successfully strangled commodus to death. With the deed done and finally done right, phase too of the plan was then initiated. One of the keycon pirators, pretorian prefect, quintus letus, went and retrieved publius helvius pertinax from his house all night. The point of all this was to present the senate with a feta comple so that when the senators awakened on new year's day and found the old emperor dead, a new

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