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The surviving libelli document compliance, not casualties, and no ancient Christian writer or modern historian has reconstructed an aggregate death total for the roughly eighteen months of enforcement; only named individual executions are on record.
What would resolve this A systematic collation of the named martyrologies and surviving correspondence across the persecution's eighteen months, of the kind that could establish a documented floor even without a claim to completeness.
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The surviving libelli document compliance, not casualties, and no ancient or modern source attempts a running total for the eighteen months of enforcement.
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