Episode CLXXXVI - Proscriptions
Emperors of Rome
What Is the Context of Prescription?
Prescription isn't really an execution, it means that anyone who sees them is empowered to kill them and to turn them in for a reward. It's basically a complete breakdown of social order, all done without any real commitment of resources by the state. Rome has killed people more brutally than it did under sulla - but maybe never so randomly or so lawlessly.
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