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He replaced the existing praetorian guard with sixteen cohorts recruited from his German legions.
Titus and Domitian were not close and so while Titus was dying, Domitian left for the praetorian camp where he was hailed as emperor.
In 296, with Maximian guarding the Rhine, Constantius and his praetorian prefect, Asclepiodotus, took ship for Britain.
A herdsman, tough and uneducated, he rose high in the army and became praetorian prefect of Diocletian, to whom his loyalty was unswerving.
In the latter two cases, soldiers and officers are isolated from society and can represent a praetorian challenge to legitimate rule.
Or perhaps Hotte, as much of a trained praetorian as he was, would have thought twice about committing his cowardly crime.
Eventually the Visigoths, after a brief period of fighting for the Romans in Spain, were established in south-west Gaul in 418 by the praetorian prefect.
Few could have imagined that her intransigent attitude to the European process, particularly German unity, would be one of the factors in her abrupt dismissal by the Conservative praetorian guard the following month.
Abdullah has spent his life building this praetorian elite force.
The army of praetorian prefect Furius Victorinus tried to relieve the city, but was defeated and its general slain.
That's also the reason I decided to add a Capitol Imperialis painted in Ultramarine colors, as if this huge praetorian unit was part of the chapter's standard battlefield deployment.
In 288, Maximian appointed Constantius to serve as his praetorian prefect in Gaul.
Each emperor would have his own court, his own military and administrative faculties, and each would rule with a separate praetorian prefect as chief lieutenant.
Domitian quickly launched a counteroffensive, personally travelling to the region accompanied by a large force commanded by his praetorian prefect Cornelius Fuscus.
The Praetorian Guard, who despised their unmilitary emperor, defected to Galba on the promise of a donative, and the senate declared Nero a public enemy.
From Spain, Trajan was summoned, while Domitian himself came from Rome with the Praetorian Guard.
As a compensation measure, the Praetorian Guard demanded the execution of Domitian's assassins, which Nerva refused.
In 223, the Praetorian Guard murdered their prefect, Ulpian, in Alexander's presence and despite the emperor's pleas.
Arcadius showed little interest in ruling, leaving most of the actual power to his Praetorian Prefect Rufinus.
The Roman Empire survived the debasement of the denari by successive Caesars to pay their murderous Praetorian Guards not to revolt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They, with the praetorian cavalry, formed the imperial guard and body-guard.
On the threshold he was met by Martialis, the praetorian centurion.
But while they deliberated, the praetorian guards had resolved.
But the praetorian guard, faithful to me, was unable to make headway.
No praetorian or ordinary soldier could stand before him save momentarily.
This implied the continuance of praetorian methods of administration.
It was under a governor of praetorian rank, and the legio xiii.
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