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Antonine Plague - Part 2: Invisible Alarms
The first warnings did not appear in proclamations or Senate debates. They showed up in the bodies of men who should have been the empire’s pride—soldiers returning home, suddenly and inexplicably ill. In the years after the eastern campaign, as Roman troops and their attendants returned from places like Seleucia and Mesopotamia, an unfamiliar sickness began to surface. According to Galen and later historians, this was no ordinary fever.
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