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