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Jan-Maat
is on page 106 of 238
"The eunuchs of the bedchamber also had great opportunities for enrichment by receiving bribes & exploiting inside information. ..the late Roman system looks at first sight like corruption run riot. Everything was for sale including government "
1i600 years later not much has changed.
— Sep 07, 2020 07:08AM
1i600 years later not much has changed.
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Jan-Maat
is on page 178 of 238
"While 'the poor' in the Christian mentality stood for all that was wrong in the fallen state of man this recognition did not give rise to social revolution or to the attempt to remove poverty....but rather to the practise of almsgiving which offered at one & the same time a convenient palliative & a source of prestige for the givers"
— Sep 08, 2020 03:14AM
Jan-Maat
is on page 129 of 238
"Inscriptions do not suggest that Christians differed significantly in terms of family size or age at marriage from pagan ones; in good society, marriages were arranged & girls married at 12 or 14 & betrothed before puberty"
— Sep 07, 2020 11:47AM
