Identifier: historyofromeofr06duru Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians Year: 1883 (1880s) Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919 Subjects: Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: as celebrated at Rome, that of Diocletian(Eutropius, ix. _7). 1 Quina .\11N ISTRATION. 2-1,J a field near the walls, with fifty modii of corn to sow it, and withfree entrance to the city baths.1 The legions with their auxiliaries represent the army of theline; the ten praetorian cohorts, or imperial guard, under the com-mand of one or two prefects, and the urban2 cohorts, commandedby the prefect of the city, formed, as it were, its reserve. The

Text Appearing After Image: QUADRIREME FROM THE REVERSE OF A BRONZE OF GORDIAN III.* praetorian cohorts were at the beginning of the Empire formed ofvolunteers from Etruria, Umbria, Latium, and the older Romancolonies; later they were taken from the whole of Italy, theSpanish colonies, and those of the warlike provinces of Macedoniaand Noricum.4 From the time of Septimius Severus they were l Ilerzog, pp. 109-110. 1 Inc., Ann. iv. 5. Under Vitellius there were exceptionally sixteen praetorian cohortsand four urban, each with a thousand men (/militairesoi M. L. Renier, Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6, for the years 161,208, 243, and 248). Thefour urban cohorts, of fifteen hundred men each, were next iu rank to the praetorians, as isproved by three inscriptions of Lyons, which mention a X11 la coh. urb. * This coin bears the inscription : TRAIECTUS AVG. (The crossing of the Emperor

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