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2 unusual facts about Praetorian


Lucius Aurelius Marcianus

The Philippopolis Inscription (epigraphic source 1. above) records that before he began to receive Imperial commissions as a dux Marcianus had been the tribunus of a Praetorian Cohort and a Protector of Gallienus.

Talvikuningas

# "Pretoriaanikyborgit" – 5:50 (Yrjänä/Halmkrona/Rasio) ("Praetorian Cyborgs")


Classis Ravennas

Some of the sailors were based in Rome itself, initially housed in the barracks of the Praetorian Guard, but later given their own barracks, the Castra Ravennatium across the Tiber.

Cleander

Marcus Aurelius Cleander (fl. 2nd century), Roman freedman from Phrygia, favourite and praetorian prefect of Emperor Commodus

Drusus Julius Caesar

An earlier fight with a praetorian guard (possibly Sejanus as well) earned him the ironic nickname "Castor", after the patron god of the praetorians.

Nicomachus Flavianus

Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334-394), praetorian prefect, supporter of Eugenius

Ostrogothic Papacy

While Simplicius still lived, the praetorian prefect, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, called together the Roman Senate, Roman clergy, and the leading local bishops in the Imperial Mausoleum.

Perennis

Tigidius Perennis (died 185), a prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, during the reigns of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus

Peter Barsymes

In 543, he succeeded Theodotus as praetorian prefect of the East, a post he held until 546.

Praetorian Building

As the Main Street District, Dallas and downtown Dallas began a revival and many surrounding buildings were rehabilitated, the Praetorian Building was also eyed for renovation.

Probianus

Caelius Aconius Probianus (fl. 461–471), a praetorian prefect and consul

Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss

Saint Sebastian was appointed as a captain of the Praetorian Guard of Roman emperors Diocletian and Maximian and was martyred.

Severan dynasty

The eighteen year-old Emperor Elagabalus and his mother were both taken from the palace, dragged through the streets, murdered and thrown in the river Tiber by the Praetorian Guard, who then proclaimed Alexander Severus as Augustus.

Titus Petronius Secundus

Prior to becoming Praetorian prefect, Petronius had served as governor of the Egypt province from 92 until 93.

Virius Nicomachus Flavianus

A pagan and close friend of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, he was Praetorian prefect of Italy in 390–392 and, under usurper Eugenius (392–394), again praetorian prefect (393–394) and consul (394, recognized only within Eugenius' territory).


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