barracks emperor
noun/ˈbæɹəks ˈɛmpəɹə/UK/ˈbæɹəks ˈɛmpəɹɚ/US
Definitions
An emperor who seized power by virtue of his command of the army.
- Abraham Lincoln had only one thing in common with a Roman barracks-emperor: that he had risen, as had Diocletian and others, from a poverty-stricken rural background.
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