02-24-2015, 08:37 PM
Quote:Do you have a reference for that?
Callistratus, in Book 48 of the Digest:
28. On Judicial Inquiries, Book VI (2) It is not customary for all people to be beaten with rods, but only free men of inferior station (teniores homines); those of higher rank (honestiores) are not to be beaten with rods.
I'm not sure how closely the latin phrase (honestiores vero fustibus non subiciuntur) matches that used to describe the punishment of soldiers.
Nathan Ross