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  1. Emperor: "So, for a start, what's your name?" Dionysios1: "Dionysios, son of Dionysios." Emperor: "And your?" Dionysios2: "Dionysios, son of Dionysios." Emperor: "... Ok, behead them."
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  2. Moreover, since it was a legal obligation, if a slave already wanted to talk it was applied quite leniently.
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  3. Mind that the investigator in this story was a plebeian himself. In first century BC the distinction had already became quite pointless.
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  4. Since the testimony of a slave could be legally considered in a trial only if torture had been used, when slaves already wanted to talk this legal obligation was enforced quite leniently. A pair of hits with a rod, and you could consider yourself tortured.
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  5. Do not forget the story of Odaenathus of Palmyra. Savior of the Roman Empire in one of its lowest moments (his wife, not so much).
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  6. Since slaves were required to obey to their masters, and even lying for them, the testimony of a slave could be considered in a trial only if torture had been used. Since it was a legal obligation, when a slave already wanted to talk, it was enforced quite leniently. A pair of hits with a rod, and you could consider yourself tortured. As for the "stomach", the "cursus honorum" of a high class Roman started with ten years as military tribune. As such, he probably ordered harsher punishments on his own legionaries.
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  7. Scissors (the ancient kind).
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  8. "In dubio pro reo" (if there are doubts, then the defendant must prevail).
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