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To: Daniel II
>>Aurelian was the last to let the Senate have any kind of voice at all, although how much can be debated. Most emperors ignored them except on trivial matters - usually internal affairs.

Correct me if I’m wrong.
<<

Hah hah hah hah!

Would you believe that he may have dissolved away the Senate because they submitted to the petition of a women's protest(the first organized female protest in history).
The emperor had banned importing silks from the east.
He thought the empire could not afford such a trivial flimsy luxury.
The women of Rome could not stand to do without their silks.

47 posted on 06/26/2009 3:55:50 AM PDT by Osnome (Moderation in all things)
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To: Osnome

LOL! Okay. You seem to have the better memory. Even after reading Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” and Philip Schaff’s multi-volumed “History of the Church” ... I’m now running back to brush up on my history.

Run Away! Run Away!


48 posted on 06/26/2009 4:02:04 AM PDT by Daniel II
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