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[[File:Flagrum.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Example of a Roman flagrum.]]
The '''flagrum''' (Latin: "whip"; or ''excoriare'': "flay", i.e. "scourge") was an ancient Roman implement used in the punishment of offenders, and usually prior to the carrying out of the death penalty. So hideous was the use of a flagrum as a form of punishment that the victim usually fainted and sometimes died before the actual execution could be carried out; the ancient historian [[Eusebius]] drew a horribly realistic picture of this torture in his ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (IV, 15).
The '''flagrum''' (Latin: "whip"; or ''excoriare'': "flay", i.e. "scourge") was an ancient Roman implement used in the punishment of offenders, and usually prior to the carrying out of the death penalty. So hideous was the use of a flagrum as a form of punishment that the victim usually fainted and sometimes died before the actual execution could be carried out; the ancient historian [[Eusebius]] drew a horribly realistic picture of this torture in his ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (IV, 15).