nam et virgis caesos in foro et in mediis castris securi percussit, qui ita meruerunt, et manus multis amputavit.
Translation :
For example, after openly beating them with the lictors' rods in the forum and in the midst of the camp, he beheaded those who deserve it with the axe, and in numerous instances cut off his soldiers' hands.
Edition :
Historia Augusta, Volume I: Hadrian. Aelius. Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius. L. Verus. Avidius Cassius. Commodus. Pertinax. Didius Julianus. Septimius Severus. Pescennius Niger. Clodius Albinus. Translated by David Magie. Loeb Classical Library 139. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.
