“ITA SUM REUS!! EGO SUM ADULTERA!! …MISERE MEI, DESINE TORTORES!!”
While Claudia writhed on the cross, a soldier shouted from below:
“tu, meretrix crucifixa, reum confitere adulterii!”
(you, whore who are on the cross, shout that you are an adulteress!)
…while a torturer was whipping her...
“Ita sum reus! Ego sum adultera! …miserere mei, desine tortores…”Claudia, nailed to the wood, amidst the laughter of the audience gathered at the foot of the cross, cried and screamed that she was guilty, that she was an adulteress, begging to stop the torture to put an end to those atrocious pains…
But the torturers did not stop, indeed, in front of a public confession the order was given to torture her even more cruelly and for longer... with whips, flames and hooks to tear the flesh...