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Episode CX - Anthology of Interest

Emperors of Rome

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Is There a Woman in a Toga?

In the original latin, it'silya mite toga. Will dega sendra tog. Even i know enough latin to caland yo have another one. Yes, i'm going to talk about imperial stupidity, in particular, an edict of the emperor claudius. So quite often you have emperors issuing edicts the way of communicating with the public on some non traditional issues. Rather than financial policy, they might talk about their character. Claudius issued 20 edicts in a single day during his censorship,. He also gave speeches about his own stupidity stultitia. In these, he claimed that he only pretended to be stupid during caligula's

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