03-03-2008, 01:12 AM
Quote:From what I've read of government style in Roman Judaea, killing a local was well within the latitude of individual judgement for a principalis, and client kings IIRC could have their subjects executed as they pleased.I'm not quite sure; Pilate got into trouble when he killed a couple of locals too many and was pensioned off.
Quote:it would have been easy enough to send for word from the governor or other official Roman legal guy, and get approval, either for a specific event, or a general order.A general order is what I had in mind as well; a speculator, being a scout, was supposed to act on his own. Usually, there would have been little time to ask for confirmation of orders; he might as well have some sort of "license to kill" when he thought he had to.
