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Which famous historian wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures with ungoverned fury"?
Julius Caesar
Edward Gibbon
Pliny the Younger
Cicero
Answer
Edward Gibbon was a famous English historian who wrote a book called The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In this book, he wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures with ungoverned fury." This means that Elagabalus was very hedonistic and did not care about anything but his own pleasure.
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