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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER I: The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines
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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.

794) under Alexander Severus.

I have endeavored to fix on the proper medium between these two periods.


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