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AD 543

1 record placed in AD 543; regions: Europe.

Placed in AD 543 by a source

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AD 543Placed in a yearEuropeEnvironment, health and technology

Severe mortality strikes Italy

The anonymous continuation places severe mortality devastating Italy under 543.

Limits: Anonymous continuation. Italy explicitly establishes Europe. The exact OCR reads 'Mortaiitas' and 'solura'; the translation interprets these as mortalitas and solum. The apparatus gives solum against witness T's earlier soluit. The adjoining words say the East and Illyricum had already been afflicted; Victor places a general mortality notice under 542, so these accounts do not establish one identical outbreak date.

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Source: Anonymous continuation of MarcellinusRead the source