<i>Imperium, Potestas</i>, and the <i>Pomerium</i> in the Roman Republic

Drogula, Fred K.

doi:10.25162/historia-2007-0027

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“…Lintott (1972: 251) believed soldiers were protected from judicial execution by provocatio but were still vulnerable to fustuarium and decimatio , as punishments inflicted by the ‘lynch law’ of the tribunes and soldiers. Drogula (2007) argues that provocatio never applied to the power of military command embodied in imperium .…”

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Decimatio:Myth, Discipline, and Death in the Roman Republic

Taylor

2022

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The military punishment of decimatio, the cudgelling by lot of one in ten men in a disgraced unit, often described as a cornerstone of Roman military discipline, was never practised during the third and second centuries BC. The punishment was possibly used as an extraordinary measure a couple of times in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It soon fell into total desuetude but was cultivated as a rhetorical construct that proclaimed theoretical powers commanders no longer dared effect. It was only revived, or rather reinvented, during the Late Republic, a violent moment that saw the confluence of antiquarian enthusiasm with military dynasts whose unrestrained powers allowed them to manifest what had previously been an aristocratic talking point.

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