Phileas

“ For as every one who chose was at liberty to abuse them, some beat them with wooden clubs, [1] and others with rods, and others with scourges, and others again with thongs, and others with ropes. And the spectacle of these modes of torture had great variety in it, and exhibited vast malignity. For some had their hands bound behind them, and were suspended on the rack and had every limb in their body stretched with a certain kind of pulleys. ”

“ Then after all this the torturers, according to their orders, lacerated with the sharp iron claws [3] the whole body, not merely, as in the case of murderers, the sides only, but also the stomach and the knees and the cheeks. ”