an execution could be bought pretty cheaply, just four sesterces per contractor, which included the cost of materials and disposal of the body.14 Of course, what this mostly tells us is that the flogging and execution of enslaved people was so common a thing that other people did it for a living, day in and day out, which is probably the best insight you’ll ever get into the mundane reality of a slave state like Rome and how little the lives of individuals meant to it.
