• In the military of ancient Rome, fustuarium (Greek ξυλοκοπία, xylokopia) or fustuarium supplicium ("the punishment of cudgeling") was a severe form of...
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  • sentence of fustuarium who escaped were not pursued, but lived under sentence of banishment from Rome. Polybius writes that the fustuarium is "also inflicted...
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  • relegation to inferior service or duties. Munerum indictio – additional duties Fustuarium – a sentence for desertion or dereliction of duty, stealing, false witness...
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    staff, or even the military. A special case is the tradition of the Roman fustuarium, continued in forms of running the gauntlet, where the culprit receives...
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    Lake Superior State University annual "Banished Words List" in 2008. Fustuarium Lachesis – measured the thread of life with her rod; her Roman equivalent...
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    and "...on young men who have abused their persons" as subject to the fustuarium, clubbing to death. Ancient sources are most concerned with the effects...
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    protective security of a fortified camp, through being beaten with clubs (fustuarium—a common punishment for 'slowpokes' during long marches), to the stoning...
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    punishment for a soldier who willingly submitted to penetration was the fustuarium, clubbing to death. Roman historians record cautionary tales of officers...
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  • Mousourakis, A Legal History of Rome, pp. 33, 206. See further discussion at fustuarium Gladiators swore to commit their bodies to the possibility of being "burned...
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    Navy Fleet Decorations and punishments Roman triumph Ovation Decimatio Fustuarium Economics of the Roman army Roman military clothing Military history of...
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