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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER III: The Constitution In The Age Of The Antonines
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25.) See the use Tiberius made of the Senate in the mutiny of the Pannonian legions, (Tacit.Annal.

i.)] [Footnote 30: These words seem to have been the constitutional language.
See Tacit.Annal.xiii.4.

* Note: This panegyric on the soldiery is rather too liberal.

Claudius was obliged to purchase their consent to his coronation: the presents which he made, and those which the praetorians received on other occasions, considerably embarrassed the finances.

Moreover, this formidable guard favored, in general, the cruelties of the tyrants.


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