So during a riot, the roman people would arm themselves With whatever they found to hand....

So during a riot, the roman people would arm themselves With whatever they found to hand. So those might be knives. Those might be rocks. Those might be table legs. There's a famous case from the second century b.C. Where a very famous roman politician Was beaten to death with pieces of furniture. - This is a major crisis
in rome And a kind of shocking
experience for people