Brewer's: Tennis Ball of Fortune

Pertinax, the Roman emperor, was so called. He was first a seller of charcoal, then a schoolmaster, then a soldier, and lastly an emperor, but in three months he was dethroned and murdered.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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