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was very much practiced among them, to tell even their names. BA Spanish peasant, being put to the rack about his accomplices in the murder of the praetor Lucius Piso, cried out in the midst of the torments that his friends should not stir and should watch in all security, and that it was not in the power of pain to wring one word of confession from him. And they got nothing else out of him for the first day. The next day, as they were bringing him back to start his torture again, he shook himself
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