Decimation

Killing one tenth of your men randomly by lot seems harsh. But excessively just killing all four thousand of them because they lost a battle? Is that because was, in particular, a battle against slavesi imagine so. I think plutarch is saying to us that crassus's action is very harsh here,. i think he's teaing us up to think, even as an ancient reader, if we were rond at the time of plutarch, that this is extreme. This isn't just to make an example. Normally you do it to a particular cohort, or maybe a leg ju to ma exaerlee. It makes me think Crassus is being presented as