Editing Roman legion (section)

===Major punishments===
* ''[[Fustuarium]]'' – a sentence for desertion or dereliction of duty, stealing, false witness, sexual misconduct and repeating three times a same offense. The legionary would be stoned or beaten to death by [[cudgel]]s, in front of the assembled troops, by his fellow soldiers or those whose lives had been put in danger. Soldiers under sentence of ''fustuarium'' who escaped were not pursued but lived under sentence of banishment from Rome. In the event that a group of legionaries are to be subjected to this punishment, the [[tribune]] would make an alteration in order to spare the majority of the accused. The tribune would first select a handful of the guilty men, and those selected would be condemned to the original penalty under the ''fustuarium''. The remainder of the accused would then be driven out of the camp and forced to live in an undefended location for a chosen period of time; they were also limited to eating only barley.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html|title=The Histories of Polybius: Fragments of Book VI |page=357|last=Edwards|first=H. J.|website=The University of Chicago|access-date=April 2, 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[Decimation (punishment)|Decimation]]'' – according to 17th century belief<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-original-definition-of-decimate|title=It's totally fine to use 'decimate' as a synonym for 'devastate'. This is why.|website=Merriam-Webster|access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2019}} (possibly folk etymology{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}), the Romans practiced this punishment in which a sentence was carried out against an entire unit that had mutinied, deserted, or shown dereliction of duty. One out of every ten men, chosen by lots, would be beaten to death, usually by the other nine with their bare hands, who would be forced to live outside the camp and in some instances obliged to renew the military oath, the ''[[Sacramentum (oath)|sacramentum]]''.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}