Possible Clues:

• Rishi cannot yet dodge around this subject
• Ruin intro with hesitancy — it's no longer important!
• A tale about thin ice cracking is no longer relevant
• As yet no Christian recollected what happened long ago
• Old news
• Course covering Egypt
• Course covering the Roman Empire, perhaps
• It may be studied in school
• Water under the bridge
• There's something very familiar in accounts of Roman empire