The last execution of this kind took place in the reign of the emperor Domitian. […] This last emblem seems to signify that the earth locks up her treasures in the winter season. […] Some of these last superstitions prevail, more or less, to the present day. […] This last doctrine takes with them, as with the Hindoos, the form of metempsychosis. […] They found a last asylum in the island of Iona.