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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;expat, post: 24682408, member: 111067&quot;]An interesting, although more sinister use of this reverse. Under Caracalla it was to celebrate the restoration of the water supply to Carthage. A few years later (203AD), his brother Geta used the same reverse to patronise the Imperial visit to Carthage, culminating in his Birthday festivities at the amphitheatre. Unfortunately, the highlight of the spectacle was of a darker side. According to surviving early Christian eyewitness accounts, the noble martyrs Perpetua and her slave Felicitas were arrested in Roman Carthage in 203 AD and sentenced to death because they were preparing for baptism and refused to renounce their faith. They were executed in front of Geta.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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