She denied the fact with obstinacy; and, being put to the torture, bore the severest tortures of the rack with unshaken constancy.17.

Indeed, so remarkable was her resolution, that though acquainted with all the particulars of the conspiracy, and although Cher'ea was the person appointed to preside at her torture, she revealed nothing; on the contrary, when she was led to the rack, she trod upon the toe of one of the conspirators, intimating at once her knowledge of their conspiracy, and her resolution not to divulge it.18.Thus she suffered, until all her limbs were dislocated; and, in that deplorable state, was presented to the emperor, who ordered her a gratuity for what she had endured.
19.

Cher'ea could no longer contain his indignation, at being thus made the instrument of a tyrant's cruelty.

After several deliberations of the conspirators, it was at last resolved to attack him during the Palatine games, which lasted four days,[19] and to strike the blow when his guards should not have the opportunity to defend him.
20.

The first three days of the games passed.