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The four men in this picture are engaged in burning a large scroll, a Roman decree banning Christianity. They are clean-shaven and short-haired, wear the Roman toga and have bare feet. One thrusts the scroll into the flames and the other adds a large bundle of sticks.
Note that the swastika on the right-most man’s sleeve long predates any modern connotation of that symbol: this book was published in 1887.
«Regardez-le bien.» Et il le jeta au mileu des flammes.
“What is it?” everyone asked curiously.
“Neither more nor less than the famous decree,” Pankration replied with childlike joy, “look:”
And he threw it into the flames, and the gigantic son of Diogenes covered it with [bundle of logs] to maintain and stifle the crackling parchment, which twitched, twisted with effort contracted in many ways. It first appeared a letter, word, and then shine the praise of an emperor or a blasphemy against the Christians, until no more remained in a small pile of ash blackish. [Google translate] (p. 221)
