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The emperor Galerius, meanwhile, was said to enliven mealtimes by feeding criminals to his pet bears as he ate.

Koutsoumba says that the ministry also wanted to halt work at a site in Thessaloniki, after major buildings from the time of Roman emperor Gaius Galerius around ad 305–11 were discovered on land where a shopping centre was to be built.

Persecutions of Diocletian and Galerius, 458.

He is said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under Galerius in 303.

Diocletian, whose name has been somewhat unjustly associated with a persecution, the responsibility of which belongs far more to his colleague Galerius, having left the Christians in perfect peace for nearly eighteen years, suffered himself to be persuaded to make one more effort to eradicate the foreign creed.