The slaves of ancient Rome were often subjected to all kinds of torture. It is known that instead of a free person suspected of committing any crime, his slaves were tortured, sometimes to death. But still, this did not stop the Romans from bullying free men and women, because in ancient Roman laws one could always find loopholes, which were repeatedly used by representatives of the Roman elite. You might be interested in article 15 of the terrifying torture devices that are hard to believe exist.
10. Sewing into a donkey
Ancient Rome has always been famous for its cruelty. For example, Apuleius (Golden Donkey) and Lucian (Lucius, or Donkey) described in their writings such torture:
First, the donkey was killed, the belly was ripped open and its internal organs were removed. Then the accused was stripped naked and stuffed inside the animal. The belly was sewn up, leaving the slave's head outside so that he would not suffocate, thereby making him suffer even longer.
The body of an animal, with a slave in it, was left in the sun, and over time it began to decompose. Insect larvae crawled along it, and vultures began to peck at the flesh of a decomposing animal - the victim of such torture waited a very long time for his death.
9. Feeding wild boars
The torture of young girls, which was carried out by the people of Heliopolis, under the rule of the Romans, was described by Saint Gregory:
Each virgin who faced this test was first given to the gladiators. When the girl could no longer be considered innocent, she was undressed and her stomach was cut open, pulling her insides out. Further, grains of barley were poured into the body, the belly was sewn back up and given to be torn apart by wild boars.
8. Eviscerate
The people of Ancient Rome believed that the higher your status, the more people you could kill without any consequences. For example, the emperor had the right to kill anyone, the general could easily kill the lieutenant, and the soldiers - ordinary citizens.
Climbing up the social ladder was strictly forbidden: if an ordinary resident raped a soldier, then he was subjected to public castration. If the soldier himself voluntarily allowed the citizen to do this, he was gutted.
These rules, as well as the very idea of love relationships between men, introduced a lot of confusion in ancient Roman history, because anyone could easily accuse another person of violating the chain of command.
7. Binding
Tiberius was considered the most terrible and cruel emperor of Roman history, and for good reason. He was almost always in a bad mood, so torture gave him special pleasure.
The targets of his cruelty were often the genitals of the victims. The emperor often invited his enemies to his place and drank wine with them - they were served drinks, they emptied their glasses, after which Tiberius, using the alcoholic intoxication of the guests, tightly bandaged their genitals so that the victims would not have the opportunity to go to the toilet. Here the real torment began - the victims could not empty the overflowing bladder.
6. Tormented Senator
With the cruelty of Tiberius could only shit Emperor Caligula. Once he ripped open the Senator's stomach. He survived, after which Caligula decided to gouge out his eyes. Next, he took the hot tongs and took out the Senator's entrails before ripping it in half.
According to Roman belief, the death of a senator was not a punishment, but a release. The punishment was torture, and a person was awarded death only after he had passed all the inhuman tests of Caligula.
5. Throwing into barrels
Some were destined to suffer longer than others. During the reign of Emperor Domitian, Christians were subjected to the most sophisticated torture. One of the most horrific tortures involved smearing a Christian with honey and milk, then force-feeding him with food that attracted all sorts of parasites, and nailed his barrel.
The victim's body rotted inside the barrel, and the parasites devoured it from the inside. Two weeks later, the man, becoming a martyr for the Christian religion, finally died.
4. Burial alive
Another emperor of ancient Rome, Nero, loved to bury people alive. Virgins who violated their vows of chastity were almost always subjected to this kind of punishment. Only once did Nero act differently: he walled up the priestess Rubria in a small cave, and left her to starve to death.
The victims dug their own graves, in which the stakes were placed. They tried to push the person so that the stake pierced the heart, even if the crime he committed was insignificant. They tried to push the accused of more serious crimes so that the colas could injure, but not kill, after which the victim was left to die in the grave, or buried alive.
3. Gnawing through the body
Sometimes the executioners used animals for their torture, as, for example, in the case of the torture cauldron. A hungry animal, a rat, dog or cat, was placed inside a small cauldron. Then this cauldron was attached with the opening side to the stomach of the accused.
The executioner heated the bottom of the cauldron with an open fire; the animal in it began to panic. The rat tried to get out of there, and in order to make this escape, all he had to do was gnaw through the victim's belly.
2. Bee basket
The meaning of this strange torture was that the person was stripped, placed in a huge woven basket and lifted up onto a tree on which there was a large bee hive. The bees did not like this neighborhood, so they began to sting the person, and did this until his death.
It was assumed that the accused would suffer for a long time from pain, but sometimes the victims died immediately due to allergies.
1. Crucifixion
The ancient Romans loved to execute people by crucifixion. Crucifixion was once used as the main method of torture and execution of countless slaves. The victims were not always nailed to the cross. Sometimes the accused was undressed, a sack was put on his head, tied and beaten, often to death.
It happened that the hands of the victim were nailed to the beams of the cross, and the legs to the pillar. In this position, a person was left to die slowly, but sometimes his legs were interrupted in order to bring the inevitable death closer. Sometimes the victims were hung upside down, or the genitals were cut off: there were no uniform rules, each executioner used his own method.
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