
119- Restitutor Orbis
The History of Rome
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Orelian's Triumph Over the Rhine
The jury is still out on when the library was actually destroyed, and probably will remain so until we invent ourselves a time machine. Last we left the gallic empire in two 70, posthumus was dead, and a man by the name of victorinus had risen to take his place as emperor of the west. But though he had the loyalty of the army and the government, victorinus conduct in private earned him personal enemies. And it was these personal enemies who eventually took him down. The conventional story is that victorinus made advances on the wife of one of his officers, and that as soon as he had the opportunity, the officer in question assassinated the lecherous
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