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Poor Emperor Severus Alexander, just wanted to watch the animals play 😭 (lemmy.world)

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

According to the Historia Augusta, Alexander's "chief amusement consisted in having young dogs play with little pigs." [69] Herodian portrays him as a mother's boy.

In case anyone else was curious what the context was!

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