12-05-2016, 09:40 PM
(12-05-2016, 09:32 PM)MonsGraupius Wrote: but I wasn't aware of burning.
It's in Ammianus Marcellinus, Book 28 - although I confess I was confusing the adultery trials with the witchcraft trials around the same time; it seems the adulterers were 'only' beheaded... (although one of their executioners was later burned alive for stripping his female victim naked!)
Nathan Ross