Epicharis was an Ancient Roman freedwoman and a leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy against the emperor Nero.
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The torture of Epicharis, from a 15th-century woodcut.
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The litter, also known as a sedan chair, palanquin or dooly, is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of people.
Epicharis (Pisonian conspirator)
…nor fire, nor the increased fury of her tormentors, could extort any confession from her. When on the second or third day after she was carried in a sedan chair – for her limbs were already broken – to be tortured a second time, she strangled herself on her way by her girdle, which she fastened to the chair…
A Turkish sedan chair (tahtırevan), 1893
A late-18th-century English sedan chair at Eaton Hall
Improvised sling-type litters on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942
Lady in a litter being carried by enslaved people province of São Paulo in Brazil, c. 1860