MARTA GETS FLOGGED (PART 1)
202 AD. Marta is a peasant girl accustomed to the most extreme and tiring works since she was a child. Now grown up, but still very young, not having yet turned 19, despite being small in stature, she has a particularly muscular body due to the very hard forced labor she is subjected to on the farm where she works as a slave for the powerful Senator Falcus.
After a brief, but otherwise very heated, argument with an elderly Centurion Primipilo (the highest centurion rank and the deputy of the military Tribune, as well as one of the highest ranks in the Roman army), Marta, due to her arrogance due to her still adolescent age and therefore also quite unaware, has condemned herself to a very harsh punishment. The Centurion Primipilo, Glaucus, who is also very severe with his soldiers, has Marta escorted by his legionaries in front of his direct superior, the Tribune Marcus Attus. Marta tries to wriggle out of the soldiers' grip, but in vain, being very small in stature and light in weight (about 1.50 m) even if she has big muscles, her efforts to resist are completely useless. A soldier is forced to pick her up, lifting her with extreme ease.
Marta had her wrists tied with ropes, the same ropes that theoretically are used as a custom to tie the condemned and prepare the convict for the flogging.
Marta also had some old dark fabrics around her wrists, probably a very poor slave adornment used as if they were a kind of ornamental bracelets.
The Tribune was also a friend of the Senator whose slave Marta was and he remembered that when she was a child she played with his daughter sometimes.
"Take the ropes off her wrists for now"
The Primipilo, after explaining what had happened, even asks the Tribune to want to crucify Marta!
"Glaucus, you know very well that there must be a process established by a Magistrate to allow a crucifixion... and not only that... since she is the Senator's slave there must also be his authorization. I know the Senator and he would not take it well at all if there was no valid and precise reason, moreover that you brought the slave here without his permission, to have her crucified. By the way, a very efficient, strong and very young slave... is she just too young and brazen as we were all as boys or not?"
"Sir! I must protest!..."
"I don't care about your protests Glaucus. The girl is not being crucified! End of discussion!"
Marta with her heart in her throat from fear and tension now feels completely relieved feeling saved and assumes in front of the Primipilo an attitude and a posture with a slight mixture of challenge and arrogance (see Marta in the image) with her well developed and swollen but small muscles and her small and firm breasts from her pectoral muscles, and still soaked in sweat from the heat and the tiring work.
The Tribune: "Nevertheless Marta..."
Marta: "Yes sir"
The Tribune: "I will have to give you a punishment anyway of which I will have the Senator notified immediately to have his consent"
Marta: "What?... I... Tribune! I beg you!"
The Tribune: "You will be flogged with 25 lashes with a normal whip"
Glaucus: "No with the Flagrum! Or then 50 with the normal one!"
The Tribune: "Oh yeah? You're an idiot! And how do you think she can resist, she'll be 45 or 50 kg at most, she's too small in build, she'd be killed! The flogging must also be decided based on the size of the condemned... The fact that she also has a few liters less blood than you who weigh 90 kg! You have my orders! And if anything happens to her I'll hold you directly responsible, have her flogged by two Lictors in the common way and that the lashes are not inflicted too close together so that she can recover as much strength as possible and if she were to faint... do you hear me?... if she were to pass out, ENOUGH! It doesn't matter if she has not completed all the 25 lashes. You must untie her immediately, do we understand each other Primipilo?! Don't argue with my orders! Don't piss me off! That's more than enough! She'll have some nasty wounds, isn't that enough for you?"
"Yes sir!" Glaucus says sulking.
The Tribune: "Don't go out of your way because I'm keeping an eye on you!"
Marta to the Tribune: "You're a monster! You want to whip me?! You know I don't deserve it! I know I'm a slave! But I don't deserve it! I trusted you!..TRIBUNE!"
The Tribune: "Marta...don't get involved too... next time try to let it go rather than get involved because of your age! I'm doing you a favor and it's a piece of advice I'm giving you! And another piece of advice..... if you're feeling really bad during the whipping, if you're losing strength, or if you feel like your head is spinning and your vision is blurry, don't try to keep fighting...just let go yourself, it will be more easy...don't worry.. it's not the death... it's just the fainting coming in you...it will be better for you and then more faster"
Marta: "Ohh a piece of advice eh? I'll always anyway have scars on my back and I'll feel hellish pain!"
The Tribune: "That's enough, take her away, take her away and prepare her to getting flogged after the response of the Senator".
