[20,16] Ἐγένετο δευτέρα ἐπανάστασις ἐν τῇ πόλει τῶν Ῥηγίνων ὑπὸ τῆς καταλειφθείσης αὐτόθι Ῥωμαικῆς καὶ συμμαχικῆς φρουρᾶς, καὶ δι´ αὐτὴν σφαγαί τε πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ φυγαί. τούτους τιμωρησόμενος τοὺς ἀποστάντας ἅτερος τῶν ὑπάτων Γάιος Γενύκιος ἐξήγαγε τὴν στρατιάν· γενόμενος δὲ τῆς πόλεως ἐγκρατὴς Ῥηγίνων μὲν τοῖς φυγάσι ἀπέδωκε τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἔχειν, τοὺς δὲ ἐπιθεμένους τῇ πόλει συλλαβὼν δεσμίους εἰς Ῥώμην ἀπήγαγεν· ἐφ´ οἷς οὕτως ὠργίσθη καὶ ἠγανάκτησεν ἥ τε βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος, ὥστε μηδεμίαν γνώμην ἐπιεικῆ γενέσθαι περὶ αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ πάσαις ταῖς φυλαῖς ἁπάντων τῶν ἐν ταῖς αἰτίαις τὸν ἐπὶ τοῖς κακουργοῖς τεταγμένον ὑπὸ τῶν νόμων καταψηφισθῆναι θάνατον. Κυρωθέντος δὲ τοῦ περὶ τῆς τιμωρίας δόγματος πάτταλοί τε κατεπάγησαν ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ, καὶ παραγόμενοι κατὰ τριακοσίους ἄνδρας, περιηγμένοι τοὺς ἀγκῶνας ὀπίσω προσεδοῦντο τοῖς παττάλοις γυμνοί· ἔπειτα μάστιξιν αἰκισθέντες ἁπάντων ὁρώντων ἀπεκόπτοντο τῷ πελέκει τοὺς ὑπὸ ταῖς κεφαλαῖς νωτιαίους τένοντας· καὶ μετὰ τούτους ἕτεροι τριακόσιοι, καὶ αὖθις ἄλλοι τοσοῦτοι διεφθάρησαν, οἱ σύμπαντες τετρακισχίλιοι καὶ πεντακόσιοι. καὶ οὐδὲ ταφῆς ἔτυχον, ἀλλ´ ἑλκυσθέντες ἐκ τῆς ἀγορᾶς εἰς ἀναπεπταμένον τι πρὸ τῆς πόλεως χωρίον ὑπὸ οἰωνῶν καὶ κυνῶν διεφορήθησαν.

[20,16] (20.7) There was a second uprising in Rhegium, on the part of the garrison of the Romans and allies which had been left there, and it resulted in the slaying and exile of many persons. To punish these rebels one of the consuls, Gaius Genucius, led out the army. After becoming master of the city, he restored their possessions to the keeping of the Rhegian exiles, and arresting those who had made the (p429) attack upon the city, he took them back in chains to Rome. The senate and the people were so enraged and indignant at them that no moderate sentiment was expressed concerning them, but by the vote of all the tribes sentence was passed against all the accused that they should die in the manner prescribed by the laws for malefactors. 2 (8) When the decree concerning their punishment had been ratified, stakes were fixed in the Forum and the men, being brought forward three hundred at one time, were bound naked to the stakes, with their elbows bent behind them. Then, after they had been scourged with whips in the sight of all, the back tendons of their necks were cut with an axe. After them another three hundred were destroyed, and then other groups of like size, a total of forty-five hundred in all. And they did not even receive burial, but were dragged out of the Forum into an open space before the city, where they were torn asunder by birds and dogs.