The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other failure of duty, was termed “decimatio leaionis” by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth man was punished, (vicesimatio,) or the hundredth, (centesimatio.)
The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other failure of duty, was termed “decimatio leaionis” by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth man was punished, (vicesimatio,) or the hundredth, (centesimatio.)