to be relegated to the mines if lower class (humiliores), banished to an island if upper class (honestiores), or executed if the potion results in death...

Emperor Hadrian made the awkward distinction between honestiores and humiliores, and among the honestiores we find the veterans, who had obtained this title...

beheading was the worst punishment that the law could inflict on honestiores; the humiliores might suffer crucifixion, burning, or condemnation to the beasts...

2nd century AD, a distinction arose in Roman society between honestiores and humiliores, with those who had achieved decurial rank or above accorded privileges...

those who had acquired greater honours (honestiores) and humbler folk (humiliores). In general, honestiores were the members of the three higher "orders"...

criminal cases. Also, already at the time torture of free men of low status (humiliores) had become legal, as proved by the fact that Antoninus exempted town...

nevertheless, [because] this sets a bad example, the humiliores will be banned to a mine, and the honestiores will be banned to an island after having forfeited...

to specify harsher punishments for the lower classes (humiliores) than for the elite (honestiores). This is a theme throughout Carlin A. Barton, The Sorrows...

(Blackwell, 2006), p. 329. The lower classes (humiliores) were subject to harsher penalties than the elite (honestiores). This is a theme throughout Carlin A...

academic, as socio-legal status devolved into a bifurcation of honestiores and humiliores: the tiny percentage of the populace who had access to power and...