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[29] Nay more, two senators, Paphius and Cornelius, both of whom confessed to having disgraced themselves by the wicked practices of poisons, by the sentence of the same Maximinus were put to death. Even the head of the mint 1 perished by a like fate. But Sericus and Asbolius, mentioned above, 2 because when he urged them to name indiscriminately such accomplices as they wished, he had declared on oath that he would order no [p. 107] one to be punished with fire or steel, he killed with heavy blows of lead. 3 And after this he consigned the soothsayer Campensis to the flames, being bound in his case by no oath.

1 Called monetae praepositus, xxii. 11, 9.

2 See 1, 8.

3 Probably with the knout, whips of leather with balls of lead on the ends of each lash; cf. xxix. 1, 40, and Zos. V. 2, σφαίραις μολιβδίναις αὐτὸν κατὰ τοῦ τένοντος ἐνεκελεύετο παίεσθαι. Cf. also note 1 on page 340.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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