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In Life of Brian, Brian's mother tells Brian that his father was a Roman Centurion. As the illegitimate child of a Jewish woman and a Roman Centurion in 1st Century CE, what would his status have been in the empire?

by /u/BZH_JJM in /r/AskHistorians

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