Wednesday 9 November 2011

A modern historian prefers to leave it undescribed

The cause of this sedition [the run up to the massacre at Thessalonica by Theodosius' troops] is so connected with the unnatural vices of the Graeco-Roman population of that period, that a modern historian prefers to leave it undescribed

T.Hodgkin, Italy and her invaders (1899), 179-180

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