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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius

Note 20 — BOOK VI.

Rowland Smith translation

The allusion is to the fire placed under the revolving wheel, by which the sufferer was slowly roasted. A reference to this species of torture will be found in ch. 50 of Tertullian's Apology.

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