Like many people duped in Montenegro, he bought the Serbian lies wholesale...but unlike the Montenegrins, he still hasn't figured out that he's been lied to.
Is the Emperor hallucinating or merely fabricating that the “Maher fellow” mentioned 30k of anything? Date, site? Neutral readers please note: it’s standard rhetoric of Ustashas and Islamists to yowl ad hominem “clown, liar, dupe”. Cuts me to the quick. (I lie.) Dio’s hilarious etymology of “Saint Vlach” show his utter ignorance of Dubrovnik, Catholic or Orthodox. Seems he or his parents and teachers were schooled in godless, atheistic communist Yugoslavia.
What color toga is Diocletian wearing today?