Stocks
Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of
corporal punishment and
public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in
Solon's law code. The law describing its use is cited by the orator
Lysias: "'He shall have his or her foot confined in the stocks for five days, if the court shall make such addition to the sentence.' The 'stocks' there mentioned, Theomnestus, are what we now call 'confinement in the wood'" (''Lys''. 10.16).
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