To: fruser1; Texas Fossil
Great line from the tyrant Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, in 1 Kings: My father beat you with whips but I will whip you with scorpions!
FYI the "scorpion" was a whip with flayed endings embedded with sharp objects.
14 posted on
04/02/2019 5:49:05 PM PDT by
lightman
(Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
To: lightman
No, I did not know. Ouch.
15 posted on
04/02/2019 7:02:41 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
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