Condemnation to the Mines in the Later Roman Empire
Lactantius, in his shrill polemical pamphlet De mortibus persecutorum, made the following observation while attacking his principal adversary, the emperor Galerius: “There was no mild punishment with him, not islands, not mines, not prisons; but fire, the cross, and wild beasts were daily and ready...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1994
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1994, Volume: 87, Issue: 4, Pages: 421-433 |
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