Crime and Punishment...in Ancient Rome

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1. The 12 Tables prescribed the death penalty for singing or composing an insulting song. How was this penalty to be executed? Drowning the convict. Clubbing the convict to death. Crucifying the convict. The 12 Tables didn't prescribe the death penalty for this crime.

2. Which of these was not a form of executing the death penalty in Rome? Slow burning of the convict on a public lamp post. Death by wild beasts. Making small cuts over the entire body of the convict until they bleed to death. Death by drowning whilst confined to a sack filled with snakes.

3. According to the 12 Tables, what happened to a debtor who defaulted on his debt? He was forced to work in the silver mines in Gaul. He was sent on a dangerous expedition. He became a ward of the state and entered into slavery. His creditors cut pieces from him relative to the size of the debt.

4. Table VIII of the 12 Tables prescribes being hurled from this location for giving false witness. Statue of Apollo Temple of Jupiter Temple of Zeus Tarpeian Rock

5. The 'Lex Cornelia' prescribed a form of the death penalty in which one was put into a sack with a dog, a viper, a cock and what other animal? A donkey An ape A swarm of bees A rat

6. Which of these was not a military punishment which was used on Roman soldiers? munerum indictio gradus deiectio sacramentum missio ignominiosa

7. Another military punishment was the notorious 'decimatio' or decimation. Who was required to kill the men selected to die? They were required to commit suicide. The centurion in charge of the troops. His fellow soldiers. A carnifex appointed to the military.

8. Which of these people who were crucified gave their name to a type of cross? Saint Hugh of Lincoln Archbishop Joachim Simeon of Jerusalem St. Andrew the Apostle

9. Treason was regarded as a very serious crime under Roman law, much as it is today. What privilege did you not lose if you were to be tried for treason? Remedies for malicious prosecution. The privilege of a legal process. Protection from having your slaves tortured in order to testify against you. Immunity from the accusations by women and 'infamous persons'.

10. The 'Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis' was a law passed in 17 BC under Augustus to punish adultery. What punishment did it prescribe? Hurling from the Tarpeian Rock Banishment Imprisonment A fine