Seutonius - Quote One

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Date: 24 January 2007 14:59:49

First in a series of quotes from everyones favourite Roman historian, Seutonius.

"An ingenious torture of Tiberius's devising was to trick men into drinking huge draughts of wine, and then suddenly to knot a cord tightly around their genitals, which not only cut into the flesh but prevented them from urinating."

From his chapter on Tiberius, in The Twelve Caesers, translated by Robert Graves.