Word: diocletian
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...could really be achieved." Papal Legate Pacelli, without descending from the high religious plane of the Congress, was more specific about Catholicism's enemies-"the lugubrious array of the militant godless, shaking the clenched fist of anti-Christ." Cried he: "Where now are Herod and Pilate, Nero and Diocletian, and Julian the Apostate, and all the persecutors of the First Century? St. Ambrose replies: 'The Christians who have been massacred have won the victory; the vanquished were their persecutors.' Ashes and dust are the enemies of Christianity; ashes and dust are all that they have desired, pursued...
...Italian Government: a statue of the Emperor Diocletian...
...chatter today of reactionaries conservatives, liberals, and radicals. . . . A 'reactionary' in ordinary times is a gentleman who wants to re-establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
From the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian high above the harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
...bronze coins of local manufacture. The diggers surmised that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...