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The Roman Army, 31 BC–AD 337: A Sourcebook

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<strong>The</strong> army in the later empire 249<br />

This story from the life of Probus (276–82) is also entirely fictitious, but again<br />

may indicate disquiet among the articulate about the role of the army in political<br />

turmoil and its huge requirements in men, resources, and exactions in kind.<br />

Behind the invention and the romantic idealism there may well be genuine<br />

ideas about life and government.

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