[1379] Herod. I. 116.
[1380] Behistun Inscription, col. II. 25-6 (Records of the Past, VII. 98-99). It is worthy of remark that this Medic version of the Inscription is more circumstantial as to these inflictions than the Persian text translated by Rawlinson (Records I. 118-19).
[1381] Manu, Bk. VIII.—Institutes of Vishnu, VI. 23, VIII. IX.—Ayeen Akbery, Tit. Beyhar, Vol. II. p. 494—Halhed’s Code of Gentoo Laws, chap. xviii.
[1382] Albany Law Journal, 1879.
[1383] Lib. III. cap. iii.
[1384] 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,