Word: sempronius
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...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
...dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a Hertfordshire bog with only a poor man's cloak against the wind, and wondered how in the world he had come to such a pass. The novelized story of Felix's fall, as told by Britain's Alfred Duggan in The Little Emperors, is the story of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain...
...legend of St. Agnes is obscure. Agreed upon are the facts that she was born a Christian in Rome. When she was about 12, a pagan Roman, Sempronius, insisted she marry his pagan son and renounce Christianity. She refused. Where upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...
...more, Sempronius, - we'll desire...
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