The duplicitous Orestes sounds familiar:
‘Orestes is free to issue new solidi in the mints of Arles, Milan, Ravenna and Rome, enabling him to pay the barbarian mercenaries who constitute most of the Roman Army at this time.
However, Orestes denies the demands of Heruli, Scirian and Turcilingi mercenaries to be granted Italian lands in which to settle.
Before he overthrew Nepos, the Roman general had promised his barbarian soldiers a third of Italian’ https://www.historyatlas.com/people/orestes-1/ #LogicOfEmpires #DivideAndGrift #DiabolicalPsychopaths #EcocideEmpire #Philosophy #DialecticPrinciple #ContradictorsSublated #EndOfEmpires


