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Publius Helvius Pertinax (126-193 A.D.) Emperor of Rome (193). His short reign was looked on favorably by the Senate and the people, but he was killed by rebellious praetorians.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 315.
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