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PUBLIUS HELVIUS PERTINAX (A.D. 126-193)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUBLIUS HELVIUS

PERTINAX (A.D. 126-193)  ,
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Roman emperor, the son of a
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charcoal-burner, was born at
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Alba Pompeia in
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Liguria . From being a teacher of grammar he rose through many important offices, both
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civil and military, to the consulate, which he held twice . Chosen, at an advanced age and against his will, on the 1st of
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January 193, to succeed Commodus, he was himself assassinated in a mutiny of the soldiers, on the 28th of March 193 .

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