Note 119
See the invective of Synesius, Epist. lvii. p. 191-201. The promotion of Andronicus was illegal, since he was a native of Berenice, in the same province. The instruments of tortures are curiously specified ,
the or press, | the  |
the  | the  |
the  | and the  |
that variously pressed or distended the fingers, the feet, the nose, the ears, and the lips of the victims.
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