The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶388
When the clamor of the soldiers invested the reluctant victims with the ensigns of sovereign authority, they sometimes mourned in secret their approaching fate. “You have lost,” said Saturninus, on the day of his elevation, “you have lost a useful commander, and you have made a very wretched emperor.”Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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