Marcus Atilius Regulus, Roman statesman, general and consul, tortured to death by the Carthaginians, c. 250 BC. He was forced into a box spiked with nails, an early Iron Maiden. Regulus condamne aux plus affreux supplices. Copperplate engraving by M. Bauer after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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