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The capital punifhments in Abyfiinia are the crofs. Sc- 

 arries * firfl ordered Arzo, his competitor, who had fled 

 for affiftance and refuge to Phineas king of the Falafha, to 

 be crucified without the camp. We find the fame punifh- 

 ment inflicted byArtaxerxes upon Hamanf, who was ordered 

 to be affixed to the crofs till he died. And Polycrates of 

 Samos, Cicero tells us %, was crucified by order of Oralis, 

 praetor of Darius. 



The next capital punimment is flaying alive. That this 

 barbarous execution flill prevails in Abyfiinia is already 

 proved by the fate of the unfortunate Woomeka, taken 

 prifoner in the campaign of 1769 while I was in Abyfiinia; 

 a facrifice made to the vengeance of the beautiful Ozoro 

 Eflher, who, kind and humane as me was in other refpeets, 

 could receive no atonement for the death of her hufband. 

 Socrates § fays, that Manes the heretic was flayed alive by 

 order of the king of Perfia, and his fkin made into a bottle. 

 And Procopius || informs us, that Pacurius ordered Baficius 

 to be flayed alive, and his fkin made into a bottle and hung 

 upon a high tree. And Agathias # mentions, that the fame 

 punifhment was inflicted upon Nachorages more vwjorum, ac- 

 cording to ancient cuflom. 



Lapidation, or floning to death, is the next capital pu- 

 nifhment in Abyfiinia. This is chiefly inflicted upon 

 flrangers called Franks, for religious caufes. The Catholic 



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* Vide annals of Abyfiinia, life of Socinios. f Efther, chap vii, and viii. 



% Cicero, lib v. de Finib. $ Ecclefiaft. Hiftor. chap, xsii- 



|| Procop. lib. i. cap. 5. de Bell. Pets. * Agath. lib. iii. 



