- In the
later Roman Empire,
honestiores and
humiliores emerged as two
broad distinctions of
social and
legal status,
those who had held the
higher offices...
-
those who had
acquired greater honours (honestiores) and
humbler folk (
humiliores). In general,
honestiores were the
members of the
three higher "orders"...
-
events was the
execution of
convicted Roman citizens of
lower status, the
humiliores.
Usual forms of
execution included burning at the stake, crucifixion,...
-
persons – alii ("the others"),
including low-ranking
citizens – were
humiliores who for the same
offences could be
subject to
extreme physical punishments...
-
potions or
abortifacients to be
relegated to the
mines if
lower class (
humiliores),
banished to an
island if
upper class (honestiores), or
executed if the...
-
Veneralia separately from
those of
lesser rank or
dubious re****tion (
humiliores and prostitutes).
Valerius Maximus refers to the
Temple of
Fortuna Virilis...
- servile" by Seneca), and
later extended to
citizens of the
lower classes (
humiliores). The
victims of
crucifixion were
stripped naked and put on
public display...
-
criminal cases. Also,
already at the time
torture of free men of low
status (
humiliores) had
become legal, as
proved by the fact that
Antoninus exempted town...
- most of its
recipients were
humiliores of
peasant status and
occupation –
approximately 90% of the
total po****tion.
Humiliores they remained, but now liable...
-
Companion to the
Roman Empire (Blackwell, 2006), p. 329. The
lower classes (
humiliores) were
subject to
harsher penalties than the
elite (honestiores). This...
