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In his (1991) novel Roman Blood, Steven Saylor renders a fictionalized, yet informed, rendition of how the Roman punishment poena cullei might occur. [44] The reference to the punishment is in connection with Cicero's (historically correct, and successful) endeavours to acquit Sextus Roscius of the charge of having murdered his own father.
Detention is mentioned in the Twelve Tables, Rome's earliest legal code (mid-5th century BC), and throughout juristic texts. [3] " Detention," however, includes debt bondage in the early Republic; [4] and the wearing of chains (vincula publica), mainly for slaves and convict labor.
Ancient Roman victims of crime (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Crime and punishment in ancient Rome" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Ancient Roman prisons were not at all pleasant, at least according to one captive. An archaeologist that identified the remains of a prison in Corinth, Greece, found that an ancient inmate had ...
This is a partial list of Roman laws.A Roman law (Latin: lex) is usually named for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his gens name (nomen gentilicum), in the feminine form because the noun lex (plural leges) is of feminine grammatical gender.
Another punishment in the Roman Military only applied to people involved in the prison system; this rule was that if a prisoner died due to the punishment inflicted by Roman legionaries, unless he was given the death penalty, then the leader of the troops would be given the same punishment. [citation needed]
Of treasons other than military offences, some of the more noticeable were the raising of an army or levying war without the command of the emperor, the questioning of the emperor's choice of a successor, the murder of (or conspiracy to murder) hostages or certain magistrates of high rank, the occupation of public places, the meeting within the ...
Decimation. Etching by William Hogarth in Beaver's Roman Military Punishments (1725). In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth' [1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.