To: grumpygresh
Elagabalus - definitely Elagabalus.
16 posted on
08/31/2014 7:27:46 AM PDT by
impimp
To: impimp
From Wikipedia .. Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for extreme eccentricity, decadence and zealotry.[5] This tradition has persisted, and in writers of the early modern age he suffers one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors. Edward Gibbon, for example, wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury." According to B.G. Niebuhr, "The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others" because of his "unspeakably disgusting life."
61 posted on
08/31/2014 8:46:10 AM PDT by
The Duke
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