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punished the centurions of each cohort. Besides this, he dismissed the commandin<]f officer in disgrace, and ordered the rest of the legion to he put on barley rations. '^

The legion which had plundered the city of Rhcgium without the orders of its commander was punished as follows : four thousand men were put under guard and executed. Moreov'er the Senate by decree made it a crime to burv any one of these or indulge in mourning for them.^

The dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor demanded that Fabius Rullus, his master of the horse, be scourged, and was on the point of beheading him, because he had engaged in battle against orders — successfully withal. Even in the face of the efforts and pleas of the soldiers, Papirius refused to renounce his purpose of punishment, actually following Rullus, when he fled for refuge to Rome, and not even there abandoning his threats of execution until Fabius and his father fell at the knees of Papirius, and the Senate and people alike joined in their petition.^

Manlius, to whom the name " The Masterful " was afterwards given, had his own son scourged and be- headed in the sight of the armv, because, even though he came out victorious, he had engaged in battle with the enemy contrary to the orders of his father.^

The younger Manlius, when the army was pre- paring to mutiny in his behalf against his father, said that no one was of such importance that discipline should be destroyed on his account, and so induced his comrades to suffer him to be punished.*

52 ; Cic. de Fin. i. vii. -2.3, de Off. 111. xxxi. 112. The father, Titus Manlius Torquatus, was the son of Lucius Manlius, dictator in 363, who had also received the cognomen Imperi- osi's on account of his severity,

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