| Keywords |
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| ID |
5692 |
| Text |
Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (475 - 489) Victor of Vita |
| Quotation |
Addidit itaque bestia illa, sanguinem sitiens innocentum, episcopis necdum adhuc in exilium directis per universas Africanae terrae provincias uno tempore tortores crudellisimos destinare, ut nulla remansisset domus et locus, ubi non fuisset eiulatus et luctus, ut nulli aetati, nullo parceretur sexui, nisi illis qui eorum succumberent voluntati. Hos fustibus, illos suspendio, alios ignibus concremabant: mulieres et praecipue nobiles contra iura naturae nudas omnino in facie publica cruciabant. |
| Translation |
21 That beast, a thirst for the blood of the innocent, went further. At a time when those bishops had not yet been sent into exile, he [Huneric] sent simultaneously through all the provinces of the land of Africa most cruel torturers, so that there did not remain a single home or place free of wailing and lamentations. They did not spare people of any age or either sex, except those who submitted to their will. Some were tortured by being beaten, others by being hung, and others by fire; contrary to the laws of nature, women, especially the noble, were tortured entirely naked and in full view of the public. |
| Quotation source |
Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, III, 21, p. 45, translation: Victor of Vita: History of the Vandal Persecution, translation by John Moorhead, Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 10 (Liverpool University Press: 1992), p. 71-2 |
| Temporal Coverage |
480 - 484 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
probably a reference to the Beast of Revelation (Courcelle: 1964, 188 n. 5);
datierung$ nach dem manifest, katholischen, check dates |
