1. britannica.com

    Proscription, in ancient Rome, a posted notice listing Roman citizens who had been declared outlaws and whose goods were confiscated. Rewards were offered to anyone killing or betraying the proscribed, and severe penalties were inflicted on anyone harbouring them. Their properties were confiscated,
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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  3. imperiumromanum.pl

    Proscriptions (proscriptio) in Roman law consisted in entering into the list of outlaws - political opponents and, consequently, their property and sentencing to exile.The children and grandchildren of the proscribed person were marked by infamy, that is, shame. Large prizes were also awarded for the handing over or killing of hiding proscribed.
  4. EXILE UNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS1 SOME thirteen years ago Raymond H. Coon, writing on Ovid in exile, made the remark that "exile is a misfortune that has long since passed from the experience of men. Or if we think of a modern parallel, it is an entirely different experience."2 Unfor-tunately, in recent years exiles have again become familiar ...
  5. imperiumromanum.pl

    Proscription (proscriptio, pl. proscriptiones) was originally in ancient Rome announcing the auction of the debtor's property, and later enlisting of outlaws - political opponents and in consequence depriving them of their citizenship, property and sentencing to exile.Prudential children and grandchildren were marked with infamy. For the release or even the killing of hiding Romans, anyone ...
  6. exhibit.xavier.edu

    force exile, and suggest state confiscation of property to the emperor. The . delatores. operated during the early Principate under the Julio-Claudian emperors, such as Augustus (reign 27 BC-14 CE), Tiberius (14-37 CE), and Caligula (37-41 CE), when the . delatores. actively changed the operations of the Roman legal system. Some emperors, like
    Author:Justin R. ScottPublished:2020
  7. en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de

    Upon close scrutiny, the sources reveal an even more complex picture: Whereas Polybios limits the applicability of "voluntary exile" to the nobility, the commentaries of the imperial jurists collected in Justinian's digests treat exilium as an alternative to execution, forced labour and damnatio ad ludum, available to the far larger group of ...
  8. britannica.com

    Exile was practiced by the Greeks chiefly in cases of homicide, although ostracism was a form of exile imposed for political reasons. In Rome, exile (exsilium) arose as a means of circumventing the death penalty (see capital punishment). Before a death sentence was pronounced, a Roman citizen could escape by voluntary exile.
  9. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    Other scholars have studied aspects of this subject in the past: François Hinard published a monograph on property confiscation in the proscriptions of the late Republic, Marta García Morcillo has researched the role and use of auctions to sell confiscated property, and many historians have discussed fines as an aspect of different Roman ...
  10. assets.cambridge.org

    Cambridge University Press 0521848601 - A history of exile in the Roman republic - by Gordon P. Kelly Excerpt I INTRODUCTION. 1.1 OVERVIEW. In March 58 BC, the great orator and statesman M. Tullius Cicero left the city of Rome and went into exile.A few weeks after his departure, a distraught Cicero wrote to his friend Atticus of his remorse for having chosen exile instead of death: "The fact ...
  11. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    K. goes on to review "exile and citizenship" (p. 45-47): Roman citizenship could not be removed by the state. Roman citizens, according to a clear statement by Cicero (Cic. Dom. 78), lost their citizenship when they were received into the citizenship of another state. K. rightly reconsiders this view, which has not convinced all scholars.

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