Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Pertĭnax, Helvius

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Pertĭnax, Helvius

A Roman emperor who ruled from January 1 to March 28, A.D. 193, having

Pertinax.

been reluctantly persuaded to accept the Empire on the death of Commodus. But having attempted to check the license of the Praetorian Guards, he was slain by the latter, who then put up the Empire for sale. See Capitolin. Pertinax; and Krakauer, Commodus und Pertinax (Breslau, 1883).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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