crurifragium

This _crurifragium_, as it was called, consisted in striking the legs of the sufferers with a heavy mallet, a violence which seemed always to have hastened, if it did not instantly cause, their death.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

But he had still to hang in agony, and there awaited him the frightful pain of the crurifragium, the breaking of the legs by beating with clubs.

Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 1902

The soldiers executed this order by applying to the two thieves a second punishment much more speedy than that of the cross, the crurifragium, or breaking of the legs, [5] the usual punishment of slaves and of prisoners of war.

The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863

The soldiers executed this order by applying to the two thieves a second punishment much more speedy than that of the cross, the _crurifragium_, or breaking of the legs, [5] the usual punishment of slaves and of prisoners of war.

The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857

Jesus.] [Footnote 4: Compare Philo, _In Flaccum_, § 10.] [Footnote 5: There is no other example of the _crurifragium_ applied after crucifixion.

The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857