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He quotes both passages: in one Julianus is represented as a miser, in the other as a voluptuary.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Another Julian there was, but he was no saint but a cursed man, and was called Julianus Apostata.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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After Pertinax is murdered, the Prætorian Guards auction the empire to the highest bidder, one Didius Julianus.
Gibbon V janetmk 2009
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Septimius Severus outwits and kills the other three (starting with Didius Julianus), and settles down to rule Rome.
Gibbon V janetmk 2009
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But his administration lacked the funds to keep the praetorian guard in the style to which they had become accustomed under Commodus.14 In a domino effect Pertinax was brutally usurped by a former consul named Didius Julianus in March 193.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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He focuses on the murders of Commodus (the first emperor to be born the natural heir to a reigning father) and then of his chaotic successors, Pertinax (whose father was a freed slave) and Julianus (who bought the office at auction).
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He focuses on the murders of Commodus (the first emperor to be born the natural heir to a reigning father) and then of his chaotic successors, Pertinax (whose father was a freed slave) and Julianus (who bought the office at auction).
Greed, religious intolerance, misunderstood enemies: How Rome Fell 2009
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He focuses on the murders of Commodus (the first emperor to be born the natural heir to a reigning father) and then of his chaotic successors, Pertinax (whose father was a freed slave) and Julianus (who bought the office at auction).
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As Julianus settled into his first month in office, the discontent in Rome was widespread and was being violently directed at the guards, and briefly, a great majority of Rome's citizens rightly perceived that their political leadership and their government was completely and totally corrupt, and that this was due to militarism and the supra-legal nature of the Office of Emperor.
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Northerns call it, an "epic" poem; although a sketch for the Julianus
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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