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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome, by Emma Southon

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No one was being prosecuted for infanticide and there were no laws against it until precisely 7 February 374 CE (at around teatime) when the power-sharing Christian emperors Valentinian, Valens and Gratian suddenly got interested and outlawed it.
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
by Emma Southon
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