Status Updates From I,Claudius

“…famine brought rioting, and rioting brought arson: whole streets of shops were set on fire at night by half-starved looters…Augustus organized a brigade of night-watchmen, in seven divisions, to prevent this sort of thing…A new tax was imposed about this time to provide money for the German wars, and what with the famine, the fires, and the taxes, the commons began to get restless and openly discuss revolution.”