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Roman law question: What's the current thinking about whether freed persons with the status of dediticii gain citizenship through the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 CE?

As today's email from the @scsclassics.bsky.social notes, "Although the ACLS and partner organizations won their legal case for the restoration of all NEH grants in May 2026, at the eleventh hour the government filed an appeal on July 6th, one day before the 60-day window for appeals closed."

The entire fourth book of the Refutation of All Heresies is a magnificent (and wittily mean-spirited) miscellany of mathematics, astrology, physiognomy, and ritual.

Instructions on writing with invisible ink, from the third-century "Refutation of All Heresies":

My 2021 _Studies in Late Antiquity_ article on Porphyry, Eusebius, and shared scriptural practices at the beginning of the fourth century is now #OpenAccess! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article/...