https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote
WebThe garrote (Latin: laqueus) is known to have been used in the first century BC in Rome.It is referred to in accounts of the Second Catilinian Conspiracy, where conspirators including Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura were strangled with a laqueus in the Tullianum, and the implement is shown in some early reliefs, e.g., Répertoire de Reliefs grecs et romains, …