• PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Or blood-slick stone streets! If memory serves, the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus relates an incident in which a Roman soldier during the Siege of Jerusalem lost his footing because of the blood in the streets and those hobnails on his sandals, and was promptly killed by the enemy before his comrades could reach him.