2 1 Winning promotion a because of the energy he showed in the Parthian war, 8 he was transferred to Britain 9 and there retained. P317 reign of Titus Aurelius, 6 he set out for Syria as prefect of a cohort, 7 and there, because he had used the imperial post without official letters of recommendation, he was forced by the governor of Syria to make his way from Antioch to his station on foot. 3 Disturbed by this occurrence, his father went to a Chaldean, and he prophesied future greatness for the boy, saying that he himself had lost his child. 2 4 As a boy, Pertinax was educated in the rudiments of literature and in arithmetic and was also put under the care of a Greek teacher of grammar and, later, of Sulpicius Apollinaris 3 after receiving instruction from this man, Pertinax himself took up the teaching of grammar.ĥ But when he found little profit in this profession, with the aid of Lollianus Avitus, a former consul 4 and his father's patron, he sought an appointment to a command in the ranks. 5 6 Soon afterwards, in the The hour he was born a black horse climbed to the roof, and after remaining there for a short time, fell to the ground and died. 2 Pertinax himself was born in the Apennines 1 on an estate which belonged to his mother. Publius Helvius Pertinax was the son of a freedman, Helvius Successus by name, who confessed that he gave this name to his son because of his own long-standing connection with the timber-trade, for had conducted that business with pertinacity.

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