street-rioting

Updated: June 3, 2025

The darkness of the night would perforce put a stop to all street-rioting; under its cover the praetorian praefect could easily rejoin the guard, and by the third hour of to-morrow, everything would be prepared for the proclamation of the newly chosen Cæsar. Not one of these conspirators had any doubt as to who that Cæsar would be.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy - Unto Caesar

And alert your whole force. These geek palace revolutions are always synchronized with street-rioting, and this thing seems to have been synchronized with Sid Harrington's death, too. Get our Kragans out if you can't save anybody else from the Palace, but sacrificing thirty or forty men to save twenty is no kind of business.

H. Beam Piper - Ullr Uprising