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Episode CLXXIV - Boudicca

Emperors of Rome

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Diocassiusam

Dio gives us a much less melodramatic reason. The britons had been lent two lots of money by seneca, who was the richest e meest man in the romal world. Dio says they didn't want this money. He's implying that seneca just wants the interest so he can force it on them like an ovally eager loan shark. Then also, one of the local officials, roman officials, decianus cartus, confiscates money that had been sent,. rather by the emperor claudius is much more a financial disparity that sets this off. So the britons are annoyed that all this money’s being called in

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