11.08.2018

The "unlucky tree" - the offense of the cross






Doug McLachlan's "unlucky tree" quote: "to the Romans the word 'crux' was so offensive that they referred to it euphemistically as 'suspended from the unlucky tree'"

The "unlucky tree"



From: Roman public life, A. H. J Greenidge

Cited in his message here

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