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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
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Herodian
From History of the Roman Empire
Translated by Edward C. Echols
In a way of life so prosperous and well ordered, only the praetorians complained of their lot. Longing for a return to the violence and looting of the preceding tyranny and to their extravagant and dissolute pursuits, they plotted to remove Pertinax on the ground that he was a burden and a nuisance to them, and to choose an emperor who would restore to them their unbridled and uncontrolled power. And so, with no warning, the praetorians rushed headlong from their camp one day at noon, when they were off duty. Wild with unreasoning anger, they burst into the palace with spears raised and swords drawn…
But while he [Pertinax] was still talking, the bolder praetorians attacked and killed him…
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