About This Episode:
Rome didn’t fall when the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the Empire.
That was just the moment the mask came off.
The real collapse began when a hard man on the frontier heard the price… and decided to pay in steel instead of silver.
In 193 AD, the Praetorians murdered Emperor Pertinax, paraded his head through the streets, and sold the throne to the highest bidder. A senator bought the Empire like a piece of property. The Senate pretended it was legal.
But on the Danube, Septimius Severus did the math: if Rome is a marketplace, the men with swords set the prices.
In this episode of The Roman Pattern, you’ll see how Severus:
– Marched on his own capital and exposed what power really was
– Disbanded the Praetorian Guard and rebuilt it with his own veterans
– Humiliated the Senate without abolishing it
– And rewrote Rome’s “constitution” into one brutal principle: pay the soldiers, despise everyone else
Rome didn’t collapse in a day. It collapsed in revelations.
First: the throne had a price.
Second: the mechanism was force.
And that’s why Rome is falling right now… you’re just watching the replay.
👇 Comment below: Was Severus a stabilizer… or the man who made collapse inevitable?
Key Moments:
00:00 – Rome’s Auction Wasn’t the Real Fall
00:25 – Pertinax Murdered: The Throne for Sale
00:56 – Didius Julianus Buys the Empire
01:22 – Severus Refuses to Pay in Silver
01:46 – “Summon the Legates” The March Begins
02:00 – The Truth: Violence Rules Rome
02:51 – 10,000 Men March Toward Rome
03:21 – Campfire Rage: “They Sold It”
04:02 – If Rome Is a Market, We Set the Price
04:15 – Severus: Power Through Humiliation
04:27 – The Outsider From Leptis Magna
04:57 – “Not a Rebellion” The Justice Narrative
05:26 – Italy Chooses: Gates Swing Open
06:13 – Paper Isn’t Power
06:50 – The Praetorians Face Real War
07:34 – Mercenaries Calculate Their Odds
07:55 – Severus Weaponizes Fear (Slow March)
08:40 – “There Is Nothing to Negotiate”
09:25 – The Senate Votes Julianus Dead
09:58 – The Buyer Never Takes Delivery
10:19 – Severus Enters as “Avenger”
11:25 – The Praetorians Receive the Order
11:40 – Assemble Unarmed (The Trap)
12:32 – Invited to Their Own Funeral
12:54 – “You Killed Your Emperor”
13:20 – Ringleaders Executed in Public
14:00 – The Guard Is Dismissed & Exiled
14:27 – Severus Refills the Guard With His Men
15:23 – The Senate Humiliated, Not Abolished
16:16 – “Enrich the Soldiers, Despise All Others”
17:20 – The Lesson: You Don’t Buy the Empire
18:08 – Auction Exposed the Price — Severus Exposed the Mechanism
19:27 – Empire Held Together by Payroll
20:19 – Rome Is Falling Right Now (The Replay)
20:31 – Start With the Men Who Guard the Doors
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