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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.

The extreme passion which Galerius displayed on this subject is ascribed, in the first instance, to the influence of his mother, who was ardently devoted to the Pagan worship.