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Once again Rome's future was up in the air.
羅馬的未來再一次岌岌可危。
The Roman senate was in no shape to restore the republic,
羅馬議會已經無法重建共和國，
instead the Praetorian Guard actually auctioned off the empire,
事實上，禁衛軍拍賣了帝國，
more precisely, promise of the Praetorian Guard's support to the idiot who bid the most money.
或者更準確地說，只要哪個傻瓜出錢最多，禁衛軍就承諾支持該人。
This particular idiot was the deluded soul named Didio Julianus, whose reign lasted mere days.
而這個傻瓜就是上當受騙的尤里安，他在位僅僅數天。
At once a ferocious three-quartered civil war broke out, the first in more than a century,
隨即就爆發了一場三方之間的激烈內戰，
in Britain the general Claudius Albinus was declared imperator by his legions.
英國的克勞迪烏斯，阿爾賓努斯將軍被自己的軍團宣布為元首。
The legions of Syria declared their general Pescennius Niger as imperator.
敘利亞軍團也宣布自己的將軍佩西尼烏斯·尼格爾為元首。
From the Danube frontier came the forces of the third wannabe imperator and eventual winner, Septimius Severus, 193 to 211 AD.
而多瑙河邊界處的第三個元首最終贏了這場內戰，也就是公元193到211年在位的塞普蒂米烏斯塞維魯。
As a soldier Severus naturally saw Rome's greatest problem as the empire's physical security.
武士出身的賽維魯自然認為羅馬最大的問題就是確保帝國的安全。
Social concerns suffered accordingly.
因而也就不大顧及社會關切。
No longer did the emperor see his job as maintaining the Solace generus humani or wellbeing of the human race.
羅馬皇帝不再認為自己的職責是為天下蒼生排憂解難，謀求福祉。
Severus had his hands full, first stomping out Claudius and Niger, and then maintaining the borders.
賽維魯忙得不可開交，先是鎮壓了克勞迪烏斯和尼格爾的勢力，接著就忙于保衛邊界線。
Severus' major contributions were hiking the soldier's pay and getting more lawyers to run the huge imperial bureaucracy.
賽維魯的主要貢獻是提高了士兵的軍餉培養了跟過的律師來管理這個龐大的帝國。
The Severen dynasty, which he founded survived him for just about two decades,
官僚系統 賽維魯王朝只比賽維魯長命了二十年，
and was better know for its weak males and domineering females than anything else.
并且更因王朝中，陰盛陽衰而出名。
But at least it maintained the frontiers.
不過至少這個時期邊界線還是保持住了。
When Alexander Severus was murdered by the Praetorian Guard in 235 AD, Rome entered the crisis of the third century.
公元235年亞歷山大·賽維魯被禁衛軍謀殺，羅馬進入了公元第三世紀的危機。
