Published: 2019-04-17

A Few Remarks on Mutilation as a Penalty (on the Margin of – ‘Vita Galbae’ 9)

Piotr Niczyporuk
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.06

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the nummularii, one of several ancient Roman entities engaged in banking. One of the many duties entrusted to them was to examine and determine the nobility of gold and silver coins. This was the activity carried out by the protagonist of a story in Suetonius’ Life of Galba (9). This particular nummularius was a fraudster, and the future emperor punished him by having his hands cut off. To make the sentence even more stringent, Galba ordered the severed hands nailed to the table on which the double-dealing nummularius had carried out his dishonest business.

Keywords:

nummularius, Roman law, Roman public law, Roman bankers, the Emperor Galba, mutilation.

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Niczyporuk, P. (2019). A Few Remarks on Mutilation as a Penalty (on the Margin of – ‘Vita Galbae’ 9). Zeszyty Prawnicze, 19(1), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2019.19.1.06

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