My #Latin textbook (Ørberg, Familia Romana) is great for learning local culture and traditions:

"Dominus servos malos baculo verberat; itaque servi mali dominum et baculum eius timent."

= The master beats bad slaves with the stick; therefore, bad slaves fear the master and his stick.

We learned three words for beating as early as chapter iii, in which a misbehaving child was taught a lesson.