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... praefectus urbi ( Plut . Oth . 5 , 12 , Tac . i . 46 ) , and the names of Otho's generals ( Plut . Oth . 5 , 19 , Tac . i . 87 ) . After the actual commencement of the campaign we get parallel accounts of the insubordination of ...
... praefectus urbi ( Plut . Oth . 5 , 12 , Tac . i . 46 ) , and the names of Otho's generals ( Plut . Oth . 5 , 19 , Tac . i . 87 ) . After the actual commencement of the campaign we get parallel accounts of the insubordination of ...
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... praefectus urbi just before the departure of Otho . Ac- cording to Tacitus he was created ( and by the soldiers them- selves ) immediately after Galba's death ( i . 46 ) . 45. According to Plutarch Otho remained behind at the time at ...
... praefectus urbi just before the departure of Otho . Ac- cording to Tacitus he was created ( and by the soldiers them- selves ) immediately after Galba's death ( i . 46 ) . 45. According to Plutarch Otho remained behind at the time at ...
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... praefectus Aegypti at the beginning of Trajan's reign , and who would therefore be hardly more a contemporary of the war than Tacitus himself . The only other authorities of whom wo know anything are Vipsanus Messala , quoted by Tacitus ...
... praefectus Aegypti at the beginning of Trajan's reign , and who would therefore be hardly more a contemporary of the war than Tacitus himself . The only other authorities of whom wo know anything are Vipsanus Messala , quoted by Tacitus ...
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... praefectus praetorio in 65 after the conspiracy of Piso . On the news of the rising of Vindex , and his communication with Galba , he persuaded the praetorian guards to proclaim the latter , expecting under an old and feeble emperor ...
... praefectus praetorio in 65 after the conspiracy of Piso . On the news of the rising of Vindex , and his communication with Galba , he persuaded the praetorian guards to proclaim the latter , expecting under an old and feeble emperor ...
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... praefectus , ' and is an unusual one for imperial times , as since Augustus organised the cohortes praetoriae at Rome the title praefectus praetorio was confined to the commanders of these special troops . But at the end of the republic ...
... praefectus , ' and is an unusual one for imperial times , as since Augustus organised the cohortes praetoriae at Rome the title praefectus praetorio was confined to the commanders of these special troops . But at the end of the republic ...
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