He paid about a thousand dollars to each soldier of the Guard, twelve thousand in number.

After enjoying the costly honor two months he was deposed and executed.
In the mean time several soldiers had been declared Emperor by their respective armies.

Among them was SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS, an African, belonging to the army of the Danube.
Severus was an able soldier.

He disarmed the Praetorians, banished them from Rome, and filled their place with fifty thousand legionaries, who acted as his body guard.

The person whom he placed in command of this guard was made to rank next to himself, with legislative, judicial, and financial powers.