The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Equestrians, the Police and the Vigillis
Rome was ruled by a triad of forces: pretorians, vigeles and the urban cohorts. They were all vying to get augustus' attention as well as competing with each other. He never had any serious opposition through his reign; there were assassination attempts but they were dealt with. But italy is very much a special case,. so you got rome with thi Triad of forces. You have the pretorians,you have the vigeles and also have the urban cohorts who have slightly different functions. Then if we pass forward then to 23 a d, where sanus, weare gong to come to him. I'm sure one of
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