Our third Themed Set installment.

During the last century B.C.E., Rome was convulsed by civil wars. When the flames subsided, the Roman Empire had been born out of the ashes of the Republic — though the powerless forms of the latter were diligently preserved by the emperors.

The three executions remembered next all took place during — and as consequence of — this epochal struggle for power.

• Dec. 5: Publius Cornelius Lentulus
• Dec. 6: Arsinoe IV
• Dec. 7: Cicero

On this day..

• 1805: Gabriel Aguilar and Manuel Ubalde, abortive Peruvian rebels
• 1705: Edward Flood and Hugh Caffery
• 2005: Wesley Baker, the last in Maryland
• 1998: Cheung Tze-keung, Hong Kong kidnapper
• 999: Elisabeth of Vendome, by her husband Fulk Nerra
• 1806: Jesse Wood, filicide
• 1774: Peter Galwin, pedophile, and John Taylor, zoophile
• 2012: Richard Stokley, while his accomplice goes free
• 1831: John Bishop and Thomas Head, the London Burkers
• 1640: Bishop John Atherton, buggerer
• 1950: Werner Gladow, teen Capone
• 1939: The 18 corpses of the rebellion
• 63 B.C.E.: Publius Cornelius Lentulus