When Rome's Dogs Ate Better Than Rome's Children
Late Roman Empire

When Rome's Dogs Ate Better Than Rome's Children

In the last years of the Western Empire, emperors spent more on feeding imperial hunting hounds than on grain dole for the city's starving population.

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