A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . irs of statewere fairly v/ell admin-istered for some emperors confidant,the ambitious prefect ofthe guard, Tigidius Per-ennis, was, aside from hisavarice, fully equal to hisposition, and sternly main-tained the discipline ofthe army, till, in conse-quence of a mutiny inBritain,he was abandonedby Commodus to the re-venge of the troops 185. The powernow fell into the handsof the chief chamberlain,Oleander, who by opjires-sion and by the sale ofoffices and judicial sen-tences gained a great fo
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . irs of statewere fairly v/ell admin-istered for some emperors confidant,the ambitious prefect ofthe guard, Tigidius Per-ennis, was, aside from hisavarice, fully equal to hisposition, and sternly main-tained the discipline ofthe army, till, in conse-quence of a mutiny inBritain,he was abandonedby Commodus to the re-venge of the troops 185. The powernow fell into the handsof the chief chamberlain,Oleander, who by opjires-sion and by the sale ofoffices and judicial sen-tences gained a great for-tune, but in 189 wasmurdered by the peoplein Rome. When at last Com-moduss wild behaviorbecame too dangerous forthose about him, a conspiracy was formed at the court, with the jjlanof raising to the principate the universally esteemed Pertinax, who wasthen head of the police. Whether he himself was privy to the con-spiracy is unknown; but in the night of December 31, 192, theconspirators murdered Commodus, and Pertinax was recognized by theguard and the senate as Fig. 89. — Coinniodus as Hercules. Antique bust inRome, Capitoline Museum. (From photograpli.) COMMODUS, PERTINAX, DIBIUS JULIANUS. 193 It was hoped that in Pertinax a new Vespasian had obtained thesceptre, and that the state could again expect happy days. The energyand the zeal with which Pertinax proceeded to heal the wounds of thestate were generally approved throughout the empire and in the his economy and the knavish intrigues of Laetus, the prefect ofthe guard, led to a new catastrophe. On March 28, 193, twohundred mutinous praetorians pushed into the palace, and struck downthe aged Imperator. And now within the walls of their camp the troopsof the guard openly offered the silver laurel crown of the Caesars towhoever should offer them the best conditions. The rich ex-consul, Salvius Julianus Severus, a grandson of the great jurist SahdusJulianus, acquired the soverei
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