Galerius
Britishnoun
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The emperor Galerius, meanwhile, was said to enliven mealtimes by feeding criminals to his pet bears as he ate.
From New York Times
Koutsoumba says that the ministry also wanted to halt work at a site in Thessaloniki, after major buildings from the time of Roman emperor Gaius Galerius around ad 305–11 were discovered on land where a shopping centre was to be built.
From Nature
Persecutions of Diocletian and Galerius, 458.
From Project Gutenberg
Twice, after the outburst of the persecution, the palace at Nicomedia, where Diocletian and Galerius were residing, was set on fire, and the act was ascribed, not without probability, to a Christian hand, as were also some slight disturbances that afterwards arose in Syria.903 Edict after edict followed in rapid succession.
From Project Gutenberg
This event almost immediately restored peace to the Western provinces,904 but greatly aggravated the misfortunes of the Eastern Christians, who passed under the absolute rule of Galerius.
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