Decimation (punishment) (redirect from Decimatio)
In the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth') was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in...
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on a single soldier who committed an offense, and thereby differs from decimatio, when a unit that had mutinied or disgraced itself by cowardice was compelled...
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mid-third century was a necessity for the maintenance of effective command. Decimatio – a form of extreme military discipline used by officers in the Roman...
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unit as a whole for the acts it had committed. In a measure known as decimatio, one-tenth of a group or unit found guilty of offenses such as desertion...
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which is to reduce by one tenth and is of Latin origin; in Roman times a 'decimatio' was a punishment. Finan wrote that the word had "been suffering a lingering...
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can be connected with a corresponding name in the register. "Haec est Decimatio quae pertinet ad sanctum Wigberthvm in Frisonoveld" (This the tithe which...
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