Note 1384 — Chapter II · GREECE AND ROME.
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Aristophanes (Ranæ, 617) recapitulates most of the processes in vogue.
Aiachos. καὶ πῶς βασανίζω? Xanthias.πάντα τρόπον, ἐν κλίμακι δήσας, κρεμάσας, ὑστριχίδι μαστιγῶν, δέρων, >στρεβλῶν, ἔτι δ’είς τὰς ῥῖνας ὅζος ἐγχέων, πλίνθους ἐπιτιθείς, παντα τἄλλα.
The best summary I have met with of the Athenian laws of torture is in Eschbach’s “Introduction à l’Étude du Droit,” § 268.