torture of a slave
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
put to the torture · torture · body and life of a slave · give up his attendant slave
spoken of as
1 expressionTorture of Slave1 mention
Against Stephanus I (Greek)
Then, by refusing the torture, he is convicted of the theft.
in the texts
Against Pantaenetus
The proposed evidentiary torture of a slave, disputed through challenge and counter-challenge.
He read me a long challenge, demanding that a slave who, he claimed, was acquainted with the facts, should be put to the torture;
Not only from my challenging him to give up these slaves for torture and from his refusing to do so, but from every circumstance of the case its falsehood is manifest.
for how could it be fair that it should depend upon the body and life of a slave, whether I should be condemned to pay two talents, or the bringer of this malicious suit get off scot-free?
Against Stephanus I
A legal evidentiary procedure involving an enslaved attendant, proposed to test whether Stephanus stole a document.
Then, by refusing the torture, he is convicted of the theft.
for instance, a man may not be put to torture in your presence—for this it is necessary that there be a challenge;
The deponents testify that they were present when Apollodorus challenged Stephanus to give up his attendant slave to be put to the torture concerning the theft of the document, and Apollodorus was ready to write out the conditions on which the torture was to be administered;