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Hello, and welcome to the history of Rome, episode 123, The Tetrake.

I want to begin this week with a correction regarding the legend of Diocletian's ascension.

As many of you have noted, the Doom Praetorian prefect Lucius Aper's name does not translate

into English as ass at all, but instead as boar.

And it's a good thing that it does, because when I went back and checked the supposed

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