104. Marcella, a Roman lady, equally respectable for her
rank, her age, and her piety, was thrown on the ground and
cruelly beaten and whipped, caesam fustibus flagellisque,
etc. Jerom, tom. i. p. 121, ad Principiam [Ep. cxxvii. c.
13, tom. i . p. 953, ed. Vallars] . See Augustine, The
Cityof God, 1. i. c. 10. The modern Sacco di Roma, p. 108,
gives an idea of the various methods of torturing prisoners
for gold.