Gauntlet (punishment) - Roman Predecessor

Roman Predecessor

Fustuarium (a Latin abstraction from the Latin fustis, a branch or rod) was a Roman military form of execution by cudgeling (clubbing).

It could also be applied to every tenth man of a whole unit as a mode of decimation.

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