12-10-2019, 05:47 AM
I had been thinking of a scenario after reading it in a book
A Centurion is being abused by one of his popular disobedient soldiers, and is about to be attacked by him. The slave of the victim centurion, lunges out in his masters defense and wounds the popular disobedient soldier.
Who would be the one likely to be punished? A slave for attacking a free born Roman soldier? Or the free born soldier who disobeyed the centurion?
But due to the popularity of the soldier, his comrades all are in support of him, and threaten mutiny if he is punished.
In the book this scenario never ends up being resolved as the story ended there. i was always curious as to how this tricky situation would be resolved?
this all leads to my main question which is if slaves were ever given the chance of a trial or just punished immediately without hearing their side of the story
A Centurion is being abused by one of his popular disobedient soldiers, and is about to be attacked by him. The slave of the victim centurion, lunges out in his masters defense and wounds the popular disobedient soldier.
Who would be the one likely to be punished? A slave for attacking a free born Roman soldier? Or the free born soldier who disobeyed the centurion?
But due to the popularity of the soldier, his comrades all are in support of him, and threaten mutiny if he is punished.
In the book this scenario never ends up being resolved as the story ended there. i was always curious as to how this tricky situation would be resolved?
this all leads to my main question which is if slaves were ever given the chance of a trial or just punished immediately without hearing their side of the story
