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JUGUM

Volume 9 · 66 words · 1797 Edition

an humiliating mode of punishment inflicted by the victorious Romans upon their vanquished enemies. It was thus: They set up two spears, and laying a third across, in the form of a gallows, they ordered those who had surrendered themselves to pass under this ignominious erection, without arms or belts. None suffered the disgrace of passing sub jugo but such as had been obliged to surrender.