Crassus revives the decimation
72 BCE · Event
Given the command no one else wants, the richest man in Rome restores an archaic terror to stiffen his shaken legions: units that fled are divided into tens, and each ten clubs one of its own to death, chosen by lot. Plutarch's verdict on the lesson — the men now feared their general more than the enemy.
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