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Hello, and welcome to the history of Rome. Episode 158, an Imperial suicide.

So yeah, sorry about last week. I forgot to leave time in my schedule for an

emergency appendectomy, so the show had to be tabled. I'm sure this came as a

disappointment, but as many of you noted, have this been Roman times, I'd

probably be dead right now, so I suppose we should all just count our blessings.

I'd personally like to thank the fine people at Seton Medical Center in Austin,

Texas for taking me apart and putting me back together so efficiently. And without

further ado, let's get back into this thing. Though I'd like to apologize in

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