The Pushpack in Rome

The pushpack claimed its first victim in two 23, just a year after alexander took office. Despite opian's merits, or perhaps because of them, the pretorian guard quickly came to hate him for his annoying combination of frugality and discipline. After a year of watching their privileges whittled away, the rank and file of the guard finally snapped. Rome was engulfed by riots between the torians who clamored violently for the head of olpion,. The general population attempted to defend him from the much better armed pretorian cohorts.