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by KSS42 1464 days ago
Likely smallpox.
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zeristor 1464 days ago
I hadn't appreciated the Romans had two big epidemics, the plague of Antonine, and then that of Justinian, this being thought to be Bubonic plague

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

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