The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶211
As soon as the stubborn Prætorians could be convinced that they fought for a prince who had basely deserted them, they surrendered to the conqueror: the contending parties of the Roman army, mingling tears of joy and tenderness, united under the banners of the imagined son of Caracalla, and the East acknowledged with pleasure the first emperor of Asiatic extraction.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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