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more maiorum: the ancient Roman mode of punishment was to flog the criminal to death, after which he was beheaded,—an extraordinary sentence to pronounce on a prisoner of war, It was this mode of punishment that was symbolized directly by the lictors' fasces. Concerted resistance (coniuratio) had come to be regarded as a flagrant crime, and its penalty was more and more bloody as time went on—as we see in the two succeeding Books.


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