7/44 As the authors of almost every revolution that distracted the empire, the Praetorians will, very soon, and very loudly, demand our attention; but, in their arms and institutions, we cannot find any circumstance which discriminated them from the legions, unless it were a more splendid appearance, and a less rigid discipline. [65] [Footnote 65: Tacitus (Annal.iv. 5) has given us a state of the legions under Tiberius; and Dion Cassius (l.lv.p. I have endeavored to fix on the proper medium between these two periods. |