Proscriptions

Of Latin Pro Scribo who means to post

The proscriptions are arbitrary judgments announced by way of posters, and which gave license to whoever to kill the people whose names were posted. The assassin received a reward, in general part of the inheritance of proscribed.

The proscriptions were practiced during the Civil war between Marius and Sylla into -82. Then under the triumvirate of Octave, Lépide and Antoine in -43.

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