After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination">assassinating</a> the Roman Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pertinax">Pertinax</a>, his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Praetorian Guard">Praetorian Guards</a> auction off the throne to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Didius Julianus">Didius Julianus</a>.<sup about="#mwt18" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_28#cite_note-2" id="mwIA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2">Herodian, <a class="external text" href="https://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodian/hre000.html" id="mwB7M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB7Q">Roman History</i></a> <a about="#mwt17" class="external text" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Webarchive","href":"./Template:Webarchive"},"params":{"url":{"wt":"https://web.archive.org/web/20150504215548/http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodian/hre000.html"},"date":{"wt":"2015-05-04"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150504215548/http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodian/hre000.html" id="mwB7U" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow" typeof="mw:Transclusion">Archived</a><span about="#mwt17" id="mwB7Y"> 2015-05-04 at the </span><a about="#mwt17" href="./Wayback_Machine" id="mwB7c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, ii.6–13</span>