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  <dc:title>Figures, Roman torture methods by Joanne Ward</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Two engraved figures, labelled A and B, showing two forms of imposing torture or capital punishment. Figure A shows the equuleo or equuleus method of torture in which the torture victim is stretched over the back of a horse on a rack. Figure B shows a method of crucifixion in which the torture victim is raised off the ground by the armpits on a U-shaped hook.

Subject: History

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'De eqvvleo'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1729</dc:date>
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