[elcid1970]

The Roman recipe included decimation, which does not mean to destroy, but to kill every tenth one.

Line up all the inhabitants of a hostile village, then decimate. Word soon gets around.

[Verginius Rufus]

Decimation was used to punish Roman troops.

Besides the Jewish uprising of the 130s, the Romans also crushed Boudicca's uprising. The Romans crushed the Pannonian revolt of A.D. 6 to 9.