We Are The ❸ legion! We stand proud as strong Romans! Let the enemy feel Roman Steel!

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~ Stationed: Rome
~ Legatus Legionis, Fabius Maximus
~ Centurion: Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar




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~ Castigatio – being hit by the centurion with his staff or animadversio fustium
~ Reduction of rations or to be forced to eat barley instead of the usual grain ration
~ Pecuniaria multa – Reduction in pay, fines or deductions from the pay allowance
~ Flogging in front of the century, cohort or legion
~ Whipping with the flagrum - a much more brutal punishment than simple flogging.
~ Gradus deiectio – Reduction in rank
~ Missio ignominiosa – Dishonourable discharge
~ Loss of time in service advantages
~ Militiae mutatio – Relegation to inferior service or duties.
~ Munerum indictio – Additional duty

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Fustuarium — a sentence for desertion or dereliction of duty. The legionary would be stoned or beaten to death by cudgels, in front of the assembled troops, by his fellow soldiers, whose lives had been put in danger. Soldiers under sentence of fustuarium who escaped were not pursued, but lived under sentence of banishment from Rome.

Decimation — a sentence carried out against an entire unit which had mutinied, deserted, or shown dereliction of duty. One out of every ten men, chosen by lots, would be beaten to death, usually by the other nine with their bare hands, who would be forced to live outside the camp and in some instances obliged to renew the military oath, the sacramentum.


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