Английская Википедия:Cyphonism

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Шаблон:Short description Cyphonism (Шаблон:Lang-grc, from Шаблон:Lang, "bent, crooked") was a form of punishment using a Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang), a kind of wooden pillory in which the neck of a malefactor would be fastened. Some sources describe cyphonism more specifically as involving a method similar to scaphism, in which a person's naked body, having been locked in the kyphōn, was smeared with honey, and exposed to flies, wasps, and other pests.

Greek sources

The Greek term Шаблон:Lang survives in two places. The first is an explanatory gloss in the scholia on the Plutus of Aristophanes. The scholiast writes merely that the Шаблон:Lang is a "fetter made of wood", and Шаблон:Lang is the name given to a punishment using it; bad men, therefore, are likewise called Шаблон:Lang.

The Suda, a medieval Byzantine lexicon, offers a further definition under the headword Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Lang), stating that it refers to a "bad and ruinous" (Шаблон:Lang) form of punishment. Elsewhere, describing Шаблон:Lang, the Suda appends a fragment of Claudius Aelianus recounting a law said to have been in force in the Cretan city of Lyctus: "If someone be so bold and pay no heed to what is in the law, let him be bound to the pillory (Шаблон:Lang) next to the town hall for 20 days, doused in honey, naked, and in milk, so that he may be dinner for bees and flies. And when the time has passed, that he be pushed off a cliff, wrapping him in a woman's robe."

Later use of the term

The term's use in the West dates back to the Renaissance humanist Caelius Rhodiginus, who discussed "Шаблон:Lang" in his 1516 Шаблон:Lang ("Of Ancient Readings") alongside a Latin translation of the Lyctian law from the Suda. Subsequent authors identified the description with a form of torture involving exposure to insects which the late antique Christian historian Jerome recounted being meted out to past martyrs in his vita of Paul of Thebes. This connection would partly obscure the original context of the term: in 1782 the Шаблон:Ill defined cyphonism as a form of torture suffered by 3rd-century martyrs, and in 1797 the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica pronounced that "the learned are at a loss to determine what [cyphonism] was", noting only its possible relevance to Jerome's account of Paul.