Letter 133
2. [...] When these [Circumcellions] were tried by the most illustrious and admirable tribune and notary, your brother and my son, Marcellinus, after they were coerced, not by the torments of iron claws and of flames, but of rods, they confessed to terrible crimes that they committed against my brothers and fellow presbyters, namely, that they slew one of them who was taken by ambush and mutilated another who was taken from his home, by tearing out an eye and cutting off a finger. [...]
(trans. R. Teske, slighlty altered)