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Meaning of cedo alteram



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cedo alteram
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Latinism: give me another . This is what the Roman legionaries of the Rhine called a centurion who beat his undisciplined subordinates in the back with cruelty with a rod. When he broke it he immediately said: cedo alteram . Tacitus tells us in his Annales that his soldiers killed him in the Revolt of the Rhine Legions of the year 14.

  










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