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Pompeii: everything you wanted to know

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Did Titus Come to the Scene of a Disaster?

Cassius dio says that titus, who was emperor at the time, actually came down to campaniad wanted to be sort of on the scene of the disaster. So i think people had said of the mentality of, you know, we want to go and rescue our belongings that we've fled without. There's one exa on a houser of a greek inscription that says, domas pertusa, which means house excavated. And this could suggest that somebody had come back in pompeytis - but routinely going through houses to try and rob people of h of their possessions.

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