Indiscipline in the Roman Army of the Late Republic and Principate

Brice, Lee L.

doi:10.1002/9781119248514.ch9

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“… 21 On the friction involved in Roman military discipline for the Late Republican period, see Brice (2020b) and (2020c). Pearson (2019) argues that the difficulties in actually decimating a unit meant that the soldiers themselves must have willingly submitted.…”

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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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