Friday, June 6, 2014

Decimate

Decimate was a military capital punishment practiced by the Romans, where Cohorts (abt 480 soldiers) guilty of desertions or mutiny were divided into groups of ten and one of the ten drawn by lots was executed by the remaining nine.
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