pretorians

What chance would a few hundred pampered pretorians have of staying the flood?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

In Achaia, he attempted to make a cut through the Isthmus [580]; and, having made a speech encouraging his pretorians to set about the work, on

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

When summoning his pretorians to his presence, he made to them this declaration: "As I have been so unhappy in my unions, I am resolved to continue in future unmarried; and if I should not, I give you leave to stab me."

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Then Nero turned to the place where command over the pretorians was held by the stern Subrius Flavius, hitherto devoted with whole soul to him, and saw something unusual.

Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

Members of the Congress having entered into arguments with the sailors and the Red Guards, concerning the violence inflicted on the peasant delegates, the sound of the rattling of guns was heard and the leader of the pretorians declared that if the Congress would not submit to his orders he would stop at nothing.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

The Bolshevist pretorians, however, violating the freedom of assembly, broke into the hall and surrounded the office and members of the Conference with bayonets drawn.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

Because Rome was degraded by Diocletian more and more to the position of a provincial town, and because Galerius's new and hard system of taxes was to be extended also to Italy and to Rome, the senators and the pretorians proclaimed as Caesar M. Aurelius

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Maxentius owed his elevation not to personal merit but to the senators and pretorians who, because of the unusual measures of the emperor, feared lest they should lose their privileged position.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

At last Seneca, the humanitarian philosopher, turned to Burrhus and asked him what would happen if the pretorians should be ordered to kill Agrippina.

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911

While the senate was debating in such uncertainty, the pretorians discovered Claudius in a corner of the imperial palace, where he had been cowering through fear lest he too be killed.

The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911