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Episode CLXXXI - Crucifixion

Emperors of Rome

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Grapite, Isn't There?

We also have a decent passage by seneca, who is one of those people who like thinking big thoughts about everything impossible. What does seneca mulralize to us? Its from his moral letters. Edgar, he says, would any human being willing choose to be fastened to that cursed tree, especially after the beating that had left him deathly weak? So there's that reference to the scourging process. Again. It's a bit of a side reference, but it's there. We've got a couple of really interesting, but also quite enigmatic cases of grapite that show some form of crucifixion. One of them, then, this is, in fact, our

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