When the fire burned out, they beat the ashes with rods and then sifted them with sieves.

Slowly he will cause you, a king, to be beaten to death with rods, which is the fate the Persians give to slaves and traitors.

He was beaten with sticks, bats and rods, both of his legs and hands were deliberately broken.

The traitors were stripped naked, beaten with rods, and then beheaded.

The governor gave orders to beat the sufferer with rods until he died.

"Then he is beaten to death with rods, and his body is thrown down into the Tiber."

A line of males appeared from the forest and ran alongside the wooden funnel, beating the timbers with rods.

The victim was then violently shoved off of the platform, creating more injuries to joints and muscles, before being beaten to death with rods.

The men were stripped and walked between two lines of their comrades who beat them with rods, some did not survive the ordeal.

During this solemnity they ran about, beating themselves with their fists and with rods.