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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