, 1860-11-17

The whip played a conspicuous part In both
Tie public end private life Of this Romans. The
liet0rs, always attending the consuls, wore
their punches Of rods not merely for state
show, although 1t was not permitted to beat
Roman citizens except In the cnse Of their be-
Ing thieves; but slaves were beaten with
smooth leather straps, call ferule more pain
ful were the rutivp, made Of several strips Of
parchment twisted together; and the superla-
tive was the oxhidc, called f1age1lum, often
right terrible. Most terrible Of all was IN in
strn1nGnt imported ffo1n abroad, the Spanish
whip, rsed only by very seseEe masters TheiSI
lad not only the right Of whipping slaves 1t
masters, not satisfied with the plain Spanish
whip, made it more terrible by fastening small
nails or bonds, and little leadcn balls to it.
Slaves were stripped, their hands tied toa tree
or post, and their feet hindcrcd from kicking
by tie clog Of 4 hundred pound weight. The
most tritling faults were punished In this man
ncr, au.i poor fellow might lie logged for the
mcre amu5ement Of his masters quests. 1t
was no rare occurrance that Il slave died under
the whip, and there u: no more regret than
far the loss OF pan or other piece Of house
bold property. .
The ladle; were particularly cruel to their
s!aves. The poor girls in attendance, scratched
long pins tic ladies' wore as IN ornament,
sometimes filed the whole house with their
cries.
The cruelty townrds the slaves increased 70
much that the emperots made eome effort to
chick 1t. Laws were made, pursuant to which
such masters as would forsake their slaves III
sickness forfeited their rights to them after
tcntIonal1y kill Il slave WAS to be banished from
Rome aud lady who would whip or order
whipping Of slave, to such . degree that
death cns4cd before the third d9r, VIE I'd
be 'cxcom1nuuicated for from fiYs to seven
years, -,
disguise Of slaves dress for their love adyen-
tures. Rich people kept SO great crowd Of
slascs that they did not know them all person
ally, and thus the introduction into houses
was made easy. Sometimes, however, the
master Of the house got hint, perhaps, from
the shrcwd lady herself, and the intruder was
Tagged cs a runaway sleEc, 9rs spy. au:h AZ AZ
slave. II was misfortune that happened't to
the celebrated historian Sallust, who court
Cd TaustlnA, daughter OF Tulla, and wife to
anlo. After having received severe Aoggtng,
slllust WIS released On paying considerable
sum,
Callsaula used the whip with his own hand,
ana on the spot even upon people who BY
enjoyment Of the players He did not care
who the offender was- Even the restals were
not exempt from this punishment The yestal
Gfbinia was whipped By priest, and led in
procession tllroug h the streets Other Testals,
Mearc !old:' had been whipped fbr tue came
t,tierase. The guilty one, covered oyer with .
thin veil. was whipped ty priest In a dark
room. Even. en1presses were not always
:l'alGd, at least in' ihe Christian tune and In
G0nstantinoplc, where the mother Of Justiana
II. was SO admonlsle.l. 10 be whipped, how
cTcr, WIS, in the eyes ofn Roman, the lowest
disgrace, and for this reason judges ordered
Christians to bs whipped at their FIR. exanai-
ll4AQD.