Re:Roman Empire per capita GDP shows the Romans were poorer ...
by icebraining on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:38AM
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What about a prison that was full of your closest friends, versus a world of your enemies?
You wouldn't be sent to prison in the first place.
"The tortures and punishments of civil justice customarily cut off hands and ears, racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart people's bodies. In everyday life, passers-by saw some criminal flogged with a knotted rope or chained upright in an iron collar. They passed corpses hanging on the gibbet and decapitated heads and quartered bodies impaled on stakes on the city walls."
You wouldn't be sent to prison in the first place.
"The tortures and punishments of civil justice customarily cut off hands and ears, racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart people's bodies. In everyday life, passers-by saw some criminal flogged with a knotted rope or chained upright in an iron collar. They passed corpses hanging on the gibbet and decapitated heads and quartered bodies impaled on stakes on the city walls."