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Flagellation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Corporal punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Three forms of corporal punishment were employed by the Romans for judicial punishments, in increasing degree of severity: ... The Roman didn't use flogging on the roman citizens, as stated in the "lex Porcia" and "lex Sempronia", dating from 195 and 123 BC...
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The next level of punishment for the common pirate was slavery. While the sentence ... Another sources mentions that Roman law/tradition that said forty lashes were a death sentence, thus a person should survive 39 lashes! Of course the Romans didn't set limits when it came to flogging so that is also questionable.
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The Roman Scourge; Roman Scourge Instrument ... According to history the punishment of a slave was particularly dreadful. The leather was knotted with bones, or heavy indented pieces of bronze. ... The Centurion in charge would order the "lictors" to halt the flogging when the criminal was near death.
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Plutarch explains that her husband, the seer Faunus, killed her in this manner when he discovered she had been secretly been drinking wine-- a pleasure forbidden to women under the old Roman law. Caning was a traditional Roman punishment of wives.
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In the years immediately before his accession Severus had held command on the most dangerous of all the Roman assignments, ... The most common form of punishment for a minor offence was flogging, from which honestioreswere immune. Severus' philosophy of rule, was to pay the army well and to take no notice of anyone else.
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