The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other failure of
duty, was termed “decimatio Iciiio- nis” by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth
man was punished, (viccsimatio,) or the hundredth, (ccntcsimatio.)
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The punishing every tenth soldier by lot, for mutiny or other failure of
duty, was termed “decimatio Iciiio- nis” by the Romans. Sometimes only the twentieth
man was punished, (viccsimatio,) or the hundredth, (ccntcsimatio.)
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