10-17-2011, 12:56 AM
Quote:The mark, whatever it was, appears to have been on the arm. The Codex Theodosianus for December 398 ( Cod. Theod. X 22,4) mentions the branding of workers in the state armaments factories:
"Brands, that is the national mark, shall be placed upon the arms of the armaments-workers, in imitation of the branding of recruits..."
"Stigmata, hoc est nota publica, fabricensium brachiis ad imitationem tironum infligatur..."
I have no idea what the "nota publica" might have been.
"nota publica" means "known to the public" in latin. Is that what you meant or did you mean that you dont know what it was that would make them known to the public?
