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Julian (Emperor)

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No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.
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As quoted by Ammianus Marcellinus, as translated in Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History (2006) by Terry Jones, p. 205 ISBN 9780563539162

 
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