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  • Maybe the bit about Germanicus rallying his Pretorian guards, taking his helmet off so that everyone would see the general and charging into the German cavalry is Tacitus getting panegyric again, but I don't think it's impossible, and it definitely shows Arminius in a stronger position than Tacitus would have painted him if he had looked twice at his own writing. *grin*

    Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010

  • A knowing look passes between Tory as she sees Baltar cowering behind a panel as if he were Claudius hiding from the Pretorian Guard.

    VARIANTS: Escape Velocity - Episode Review radii 2008

  • A knowing look passes between Tory as she sees Baltar cowering behind a panel as if he were Claudius hiding from the Pretorian Guard.

    Archive 2008-04-01 radii 2008

  • United States tends to reestablish de facto those imperialist Pretorian prerogatives.

    COMMUNICATION TO U THANT 1962

  • The Pretorian government was in some sort of crisis at the time and relayed the message to the Sector government at Altmark.

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

  • Pretorian guards of Tiberius, 221, 229; elect Claudius, 302; attend him to the senate, 303; salute Nero, 342; mutiny against Galba,

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Brooks's, there had been disquieting gossip; the Pretorian Club, which is often terribly right in such matters, agreed that he had been badly sold.

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • After some reflection in the corner of the Pretorian where Anitchkoff once told me his story, I have come measurably into the clear about the whole matter.

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • The Christians, among them Acte and Marcus, believing themselves safe in the stormy night, at last emerge from the mountain caves, and at a sign from Nero are surrounded by the Pretorian guards.

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

  • In the third Act Nero accompanied by Tigellinus leads his Pretorian guards to the hiding-place of the Christians.

    The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

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