Fall Asleep on Guard in Rome? Your Whole Legion Beats You #shorts

In a Roman army camp, falling asleep on night watch was a capital crime. Officers made the rounds of every post at night, taking friends along as witnesses. In the morning a tribune touched the guilty man with a club, and that was the signal: every soldier in the camp fell on him with clubs and stones. The same punishment, the fustuarium, waited for a soldier who lied about his own bravery. And if you somehow survived, you still couldn't go home: no relative dared to let you into the house. So Roman night watches were kept very, very well.