And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
AD 320
The stench was so foul as to pervade not only the palace, but even the whole city; and no wonder, for by that time the passages from his bladder and bowels, having been devoured by the worms, became indiscriminate, and his body, with intolerable anguish, was dissolved into one mass of corruption.
