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Syrian Elagabalus, became emperor at the age of fourteen. The young man brought w him to Rome the Syrian god Elagabal, a black meteorite, to replace Jupiter at the head of the Rom pantheon. This was not his only outrage against local taste: he was said to have married several men&a Vestal Virgin, eaten parrots and fed them to pet lions.He was assassinated by soldiers in a latrine @eighteen and thrown into the Tiber.

The evidence for Gauls in London comes from a tablet ~100ce records the sale of a woman from northern Gaul to a man called Vegetus for 600 denarii. This is a standard price, equivalent to 2y salary for a legionary soldier; what is more interesting is that he is the slave of a slave belonging to the emperor himself. The document says that the woman was handed over in a healthy condition&has no history of running away.