They were timbers placed on the tendons of the condemned, so that they might not find [...] rising up.[1] Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "o racks and pillories, will you not come to my aid?"[2] A pillory is a wooden binding which some call a 'collar' and others a 'woody'. Hence even a criminal person [is called] a pillory. It is also applied to all things that are difficult and destructive. Also 'pillorization' [is applied] to punishments. Archilochos [uses the term] to means evil and destructive. It is called a 'pillory' [ku/fwn] from the fact that the captives are compelled to bend over [ku/fein].
"But if someone be so bold and pay no heed to what is in the law, let him be bound to the pillory next to the town hall for 20 days, doused in honey, naked, and in milk, to that he may be dinner for bees and flies. And when the time has passed, that he be pushed off a cliff, wrapping him in a woman's robe."[3]