4 ms·

Likely smallpox.

• zeristor 4y ago
  I hadn't appreciated the Romans had two big epidemics, the plague of Antonine, and then that of Justinian, this being thought to be Bubonic plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
  • iamzzu 4y ago