The Roman Legions had a severe punishment for units that did poorly in battle....They killed one man out of every ten. Decima is Latin for the number ten, so a unit would have been "decimated " JimB.
The Roman Legions had a severe punishment for units that did poorly in battle....They killed one man out of every ten. Decima is Latin for the number ten, so a unit would have been "decimated " JimB.