Greetings all,
On
this day we reflect on the Western Emperor Petronius Maximus being
stoned to death by crowds while fleeing Rome on May 31st in 455 AD:
He
had it coming. Petronius had been instrumental in the murders of
Flavius Aetius (the famous hero general who had stopped Attila the Hun
in the battle of the Catalaunian Plains) and the Emperor Valentinian
III. Not stopping there, he enraged the Vandals by promising his
daughter to their leader Genesric and later cancelling the betrothal.
The
Vandals proceeded to march on Rome - and Petronius decided to try to
escape and leave the city to it's fate. Strangely everyone in Rome was
unhappy about these antics and took matters (and rocks) into their own
hands...
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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