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Pontius Pilate

Ann Wroe · 1999

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Ryan Holiday loved it affiliate
Ann Wroe’s biography of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea–the man who sentenced Jesus to his gruesome death–was so overwhelmingly good that I could only read a couple pages at a time.

on ryanholiday.net · 12 Jan 2024

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.