Julianus and the Romans

Saverus passed into italy without meeting any resistance and occupied ravenna, home of the imperial fleet. Julianus sent some hand picked men on a secret mission to just assassinate saverus and be done with him by hook or crook. The assassination squad was detected long before it got close to saverus' inner circle. Savarus had them all killed immediately,. This show of murderous resolve convinced all the men surrounding julianus that the time to abandon the doomed foe emperor was right about now. As he continued south, towns and cities threw their doors open to severus and hailed him emperor. He stopped about 70 miles north of rome in late may one