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Two mutineering soldiers are executed by order of their camp-prefect.

Related Conflict :Mutinies of Legions in Germania and Pannonia (14 AD)
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Mennius Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
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    Level :intrasocial
    Source :Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 1.38 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Germania Magna (Germany)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 1
    Year :A.D. 14
     
    Context :mutiny
    military
    Motivation :following orders
    Weapon :unknown
    Long-Term Consequence :mutiny
     
    Original Text :At in Chaucis coeptavere seditionem praesidium agitantes vexillarii discordium legionum et praesenti duorum militum supplicio paulum repressi sunt. iusserat id M'. Ennius castrorum praefectus, bono magis exemplo quam concesso iure.
     
    Translation :Meanwhile there was an outbreak among the Chauci, begun by some veterans of the mutinous legions on garrison duty. They were quelled for a time by the instant execution of two soldiers. Such was the order of Mennius, the camp-prefect, more as a salutary warning than as a legal act.
     
    Edition :Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.

    Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
     
    Remark :long-term consequence: The executions barely slowed down the mutiny, but the camp-prefect Mennius was able to stop further escalation with an appeal to higher authority: "Then, when the commotion increased, he fled and having been discovered, as his hiding place was now unsafe, he borrowed a resource from audacity. "It was not," he told them, "the camp-prefect, it was Germanicus, their general, it was Tiberius, their emperor, whom they were insulting." At the same moment, overawing all resistance, he seized the standard, faced round towards the river-bank, and exclaiming that whoever left the ranks, he would hold as a deserter, he led them back into their winter-quarters, disaffected indeed, but cowed." (Tac.Ann.1.38)
     
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    Last changed :2020-11-20 : 01:32:58
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