Taking Vengeance on the Slayer of Cyrus

Parisatus took vengeance on the alleged slayer of her favorite son by having him execute it by a process called scathism. The word comes from the Greek scathe meaning anything scooped or hollowed out. She recovered his head, hand and body, buried them, and went away to Sousa. When it was brought to her attention that a certain carrion man was boasting that it was heat and no one else who had killed Cyrus, she ordered the executioners to rack him on the wheel for 10 days. Then to gouge out his eyes, and finally to drop a molten brass into his ears until he died.