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A Flaxen military punishment selected men by drawing stones from a pouch after an embarrassing failure. Those who drew the ten black stones were burned alive.
Also recorded as: Stone-drawing punishment
Retaliation for defeat
After the destruction of the orbital hawk and the chambers, Claudius revived this long-abandoned tradition. Ten selected soldiers were tied above a wooden pyre in the Capitol courtyard and burned while he and others watched.[1]
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Sources
Simon Evans, The Flaxen Tyranny, first edition (2023). Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the source edition.
- Chapter 28 · pp. 234