Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Parthenŏpé, Patibŭlum

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Patibŭlum

A sort of wooden fork used for the punishment of criminals. It was placed upon the neck so that the prongs should project in front, and to these the hands of the culprit were tied fast. In that condition he was beaten through the city (Plaut. Mil. ii. 4, 7). It was probably often a straight piece of wood, the arms then being stretched over from the sides. The word is often roughly used as equivalent to crux. See Crux; Furca.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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