Assertion: scourge | /r/CapableOf | lacerate the flesh
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text: In one of his Satires, Horace called for “a rule to assign fair penalties to offences, lest you flay with the terrible scourge (horribili flagello) those who are only deserving of the lash (scutica),” precisely because the scourge caused deeper wounds and could even lacerate the flesh.