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A43430	Herodian's history of the Roman emperors containing many strange and wonderful revolutions of state in Europe, Asia, and Africa : also, their most remarkable embassies, speeches, antiquities, &c. : together with the most solemn ceremonies us'd at the deification of the Roman emperors : with a character of the ancient Britains / done from the Greek by a gentleman at Oxford.; History. English	Herodian.; Gentleman at Oxford.	1698 (1698)	Wing H1581; ESTC R13737	140,954	430

receiv'd seeing what you did then was in Obedience to the Commands of your Prince Let there be then a General Oblivion of all that is past and for the future a firm League of everlasting Amity and Friendship amongst us After this Harangue he promis'd great Sums of Money to the Soldiers and resolving after a short Stay in Aquileia to return to Rome order'd the Remainder of the Forces into their respective Provinces and Quarters only taking with him to Rome the Praetorian Soldiers with the Forces commanded by Balbinus and the German Auxiliaries of whose Loyalty he had a singular good Opinion in regard he had govern'd in those Parts with great Moderation before this Advancement to the Empire At his Publick Entry into Rome he was met by Balbinus and Gordian Caesar accompanied by the whole Senate and People who receiv'd him with Acclamations of Joy and Triumph After this they administer'd the State with great Order and Gravity to the general Satisfaction of all Ranks and Degrees of Men. The People rejoic'd and glory'd in their Emperors whose Noble Birth and Personal Merit render'd them worthy of the Empire But on the other Hand the Soldiers were violently bent against them they were offended with the very Acclamations of the People and the Nobility so much cry'd up by them minister'd Matter of Disgust to these which was encreas'd by the odious Circumstance of their being elected by the Senate The retaining also the Germans and the quartering them in Rome gave them great Jealousie they foresaw they would oppose their Designs and suspected a Project was afoot to disarm them and that the Germans were to execute it and to have their Places if they succeeded a late Instance whereof there was in Severus's Reign who cashier'd the Guards that were concern'd in Pertinax's Assassination So when the Games instituted in Honour of Jupiter Capitolinus were to be celebrated and all Mens Minds were bent upon the Shews and Publick Entertainments that were made on that Occasion upon a sudden the Praetorian Soldiers threw off the Mask and boldly publish'd their Disaffection to the Government which they had till now industriously disguis'd and being hurry'd on by a wild Rage ran up to the Imperial Palace and surpriz'd the Persons of the Emperors It hapned at that time there was no good Understanding between the Emperors themselves For each strove to engross the Sovereign Power to himself so extravagant are our Desires of Rule and so incommunicable is the Nature of that Power we desire Balbinus laid great stress upon his two Consulships and the Illustrious Family from whence he was sprung and thought they gave him the Preheminence And on the other Hand Maximus valu'd himself no less upon his Government of Rome and his Skill and Address in the Management of Affairs And in short high Birth and great Alliances push'd them both on to the Desires of sole and uncontested Dominion which Thing ruin'd them both For when Maximus was advertiz'd that the Praetorian Soldiers were in Arms and resolv'd to sacrifice them to their present Fury he would have sent for the Germans that quarter'd in Rome to quell this Commotion but Balbinus oppos'd it apprehending that some Intrigue or Practice was carrying on against him for he knew very well that the Germans were all devoted to Maximus's Interests and declar'd openly that they were not sent for to repress the Insolence of the Praetorians but to wrest the Sovereign Power out of his Hands and lodge it entirely in Maximus During this Heat and Debate between the Emperors the Praetorian Soldiers those that guarded the Gates giving way broke into the Palace and seiz'd the Persons of the Emperors and tearing off their Clothes which were courser than they ordinarily appear'd in abroad dragg'd them naked out of the Palace treating them with all the Contempt and Indignity imaginable even to the striking and calling them in derision The Senates Creatures They pluck'd them also by the Beard and Eye-brows and hal'd them through the middle of the City to the Camp not forbearing the most irreverent and barbarous Usage They were resolv'd not to kill them in the Palace but to reserve them for more exquisite Torments of which they would be longer sensible The Germans upon notice of this Outrage arm'd themselves in great haste and came running to assist the Emperors whereupon the Praetorian Soldiers put an end to their Lives and Torments together all the Parts of their Bodies being before most inhumanely mangled Their dead Bodies they left in the open Street and mounting Gordian Caesar aloft proclaim'd him Emperor because at that time they could find no body else and cry'd aloud to the People That they had only destroy'd those Emperors that were made such against their will and had elected Gordian Nephew to that Noble Patriot of the same Name who was constrain'd by the Roman People to take upon him the Empire After this they retir'd with their new Emperor into the Camp and shut up their Gates making no farther Effort at this time And the Germans finding they were too late and that they whom they came to rescue were slain esteem'd it not advisable to engage in a fruitless War on the account of Men that were dead So they return'd to their several Quarters Such was the cruel and undeserved Fate of these truly Worthy and Venerable Patriots who were justly rais'd to the Empire for their Noble Birth and eminent Vertues And Gordian Caesar who was then about the Age of Thirteen was declar'd Emperor and began his Reign FINIS Books sold by John Hartley over against Gray's-Inn in Holborn THe Blasphemous Socinian Heresie disproved and confuted Wherein the Doctrinal and Controversial Parts of those Points are handled and the Adversaries Scripture and School-Arguments answered With Animadversions upon a late Book call'd Christianity not Mysterious Humbly dedicated to Both Houses of Parliament By J. 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