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Once again Rome's future was up in the air.
罗马的未来再一次岌岌可危。
The Roman senate was in no shape to restore the republic,
罗马议会已经无法重建共和国，
instead the Praetorian Guard actually auctioned off the empire,
事实上，禁卫军拍卖了帝国，
more precisely, promise of the Praetorian Guard's support to the idiot who bid the most money.
或者更准确地说，只要哪个傻瓜出钱最多，禁卫军就承诺支持该人。
This particular idiot was the deluded soul named Didio Julianus, whose reign lasted mere days.
而这个傻瓜就是上当受骗的尤里安，他在位仅仅数天。
At once a ferocious three-quartered civil war broke out, the first in more than a century,
随即就爆发了一场三方之间的激烈内战，
in Britain the general Claudius Albinus was declared imperator by his legions.
英国的克劳迪乌斯，阿尔宾努斯将军被自己的军团宣布为元首。
The legions of Syria declared their general Pescennius Niger as imperator.
叙利亚军团也宣布自己的将军佩西尼乌斯·尼格尔为元首。
From the Danube frontier came the forces of the third wannabe imperator and eventual winner, Septimius Severus, 193 to 211 AD.
而多瑙河边界处的第三个元首最终赢了这场内战，也就是公元193到211年在位的塞普蒂米乌斯塞维鲁。
As a soldier Severus naturally saw Rome's greatest problem as the empire's physical security.
武士出身的赛维鲁自然认为罗马最大的问题就是确保帝国的安全。
Social concerns suffered accordingly.
因而也就不大顾及社会关切。
No longer did the emperor see his job as maintaining the Solace generus humani or wellbeing of the human race.
罗马皇帝不再认为自己的职责是为天下苍生排忧解难，谋求福祉。
Severus had his hands full, first stomping out Claudius and Niger, and then maintaining the borders.
赛维鲁忙得不可开交，先是镇压了克劳迪乌斯和尼格尔的势力，接着就忙于保卫边界线。
Severus' major contributions were hiking the soldier's pay and getting more lawyers to run the huge imperial bureaucracy.
赛维鲁的主要贡献是提高了士兵的军饷培养了跟过的律师来管理这个庞大的帝国。
The Severen dynasty, which he founded survived him for just about two decades,
官僚系统 赛维鲁王朝只比赛维鲁长命了二十年，
and was better know for its weak males and domineering females than anything else.
并且更因王朝中，阴盛阳衰而出名。
But at least it maintained the frontiers.
不过至少这个时期边界线还是保持住了。
When Alexander Severus was murdered by the Praetorian Guard in 235 AD, Rome entered the crisis of the third century.
公元235年亚历山大·赛维鲁被禁卫军谋杀，罗马进入了公元第三世纪的危机。
