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DIDIUS SALVIUS JULIANUS, See also:MARCUS , See also:Roman See also:emperor for two months (See also:March 28—June 2) during the See also:year A.D. 193. He was the See also:grandson of the famous jurist Salvius Julianus (under See also:Hadrian and the Antonines), and the son of a distinguished See also:general, who might have ascended the See also:throne after the See also:death of See also:Antoninus See also:Pius, had not his See also:loyalty to the ruling See also:house prevented him. Didius filled several See also:civil and military offices with distinguished success, but subsequently abandoned himself to dissipation. On the death of See also:Pertinax, the praetorian See also:guards offered the throne to the highest See also:bidder. Flavius Sulpicianus, the See also:father-in-See also:law of Pertinax and See also:praefect of the See also:city, had already made an offer; Didius, urged on by the members of his See also:family, his freedmen and parasites, hurried to the praetorian See also:camp to contend for the See also:prize. He and Sulpicianus bid against each other, and finally the throne was knocked down to Didius. The See also:senate and nobles professed their loyalty; but the See also:people made no See also:attempt to conceal their indignation at this insult to the See also:state, and the armies of See also:Britain, See also:Syria and Illyricum See also:broke out into open revolt. Septimius See also:Severus, the See also:commander of the Pannonian legions, was declared emperor and hastened by forced See also:marches to See also:Italy. Didius, abandoned by the See also:praetorians, was condemned and executed by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the senate, which at once acknowledged Severus.
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