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Hi Novosedoff Thank you for flagging that up. I've checked the permission settings and there were a small number of forum sections where users were able to make posts without first being registered. The "Home > Gallery > Everything Else" was one of them. I also see there are other spam/automated comments, usually with links, in this section that date back to around 2017 which I need to delete, but I've removed the one you've highlighted and amended the permission settings now to prevent anyone that isn't registered from being able to post any comments anywhere in the forum. Hopefully that will solve the issue. Peter UNRV.com

An alternate way of accessing new stuff here is to visit https://www.unrv.com/forum/discover/ once or twice a day. I forget how RSS works, but it must be why folks seem to check my posts before I am done with important edits. About 90 minutes after I make a post, I often realize with horror how something may be taken the wrong way and correct it. Then I check online users at the bottom of https://www.unrv.com/forum/ to find my premature version seems to already have been read.

Interesting point. I found this quote: https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2020/08/roman-mithraism.html?m=1 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-270

Strictly speaking a Praefectus of the Cohortes Praetoriae did not have a role encompassing the Empire, he was commander of a bodyguard in Rome, though individuals were used as spies and a detachment of Praetorians would usually follow the Imperator when he journeyed - but then many of these leaders never left Rome anyway. The Praetorians are often blamed for unstable rule, not without good reason, but in most cases it wasn't the soldiers themselves, but rather the Prefect who had close contact with elite men in Rome who was instrumental in court intrigue. The face-off of Praetorians against the Senate that got Claudius in power, or the auction that did the same for Didius Julianus are obvious exceptions. Please note that the wiki article is incorrect. The Praetorians did not exist in the Late Republic, it was Augustus who formed them from all the bodyguard units left over from the civil wars, and the Urban cohorts were made from Praetorians with their own Prefect who doesn't figure in the historical record much, I can only think of the takeover immediately after the death of Caligula which the Praetorians overturned.