Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXIX, chapter 2, section 28

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[28] In the bath a young man was seen to touch alternately with the fingers of either hand first the marble ¹ and then his breast, and to count the seven vowels, ² thinking it a helpful remedy for a stomach trouble. He was haled into court, tortured and beheaded.

1 Of the wall or perhaps the floor of the bath.

2 Of the Greek alphabet.

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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