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"Disease has such a place in religious polemic that one cannot take such accounts literally. They reflect more about the beliefs and purpose of the writer than the actuality of events."
What about the simple explanation that the trope exists because these people did die as described?

His counter-critique of Lactantius largely exhausts itself in ad hominems. If he himself says that there's no explanation for why Lactantius chose to frame Galerius as the bad guy, then perhaps the explanation is simply that Galerius WAS the bad guy?

Apparently, there was an Edict on Maximum Prices during the tetrarchy. I don't know more because the author is silent on economic matters, at least so far.

Very interesting take on Aristotelian ethics and usury.