The Roman military punishments / [John Beaver].

  • Beaver, John, active 18th century
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[1725]
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Credit: The Roman military punishments / [John Beaver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the t Speculators. Being brought out of the Camp, as he held his Neck ready for the Stroke, his Feflow-Soldier who was fuppofed to have been murtbet’d, appear¬ ed. Then the Centurion, who was to fee Execution done, bid the Headjman, Spe¬ culator em, put up his Sword. Some¬ times Soldiers were deputed for this Office, as Lipjius in his Notes upon Tacitus, and * * Stewechius upon. Vegetius endeavour to make out by help of this Paffage in Suetonius : f There was a Soldier, a dextrous Headjman, who ^ Extra vallum dedudtus, 8c jam cervicem porrigebat, cum fubito apparuit ilie commilito qui occifus videbatun Tunc Centurio fupplicio praepofitus, condere' gladium Speculator em jubeu, Seneca de Ira, 'lib. 1. cap. 16. * Erantquippe hi Speculatores fuppliciis fumendis defti-. nati. Stewechius ad Vegetium, lib. 1. cap. 23. f Miles decollandi artifex quibufcunque e cuftodia ca~ pita amputabat. Sue ton. in Vita Calig. cap. 32, I 2 cut