03-01-2011, 08:07 AM
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.
"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.
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