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Quintus Pleminius
Quintus Pleminius was a Roman officer whom Scipio Africanus left in command of Locri after its recapture from Hannibal in 205 BCE. He and his troops plundered the town and the treasury of its sanctuary of Persephone, and he had two military tribunes flogged to death. After Locrian envoys complained to the Senate he was arrested, and he died in prison.
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