Which Roman Genera is reputed to have been executed by having molten gold poured down his throat by his Parthian captors?
Death by burning to have been executed by having molten gold (melting point 1064 °C/1947 °F) poured down their throats. For example, in 88 BC, Mithridates VI of Pontus captured the Roman general Manius Aquillius, and executed him by pouring molten gold down his throat. A popular but unsubstantiated rumor also had the Parthians executing the famously greedy Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus in this manner in 53 BC. Genghis Khan is said to have poured molten gold down the throat of a perfidious governor in 1220, and an early 14th-century chronicle mentions that his grandson Hulagu Khan did likewise to the sultan
Death by burning public treasury could have either molten gold or silver poured down their throat. The 16th-/early 17th-century prime minister Malik Ambar in the Deccan Ahmadnagar Sultanate would not tolerate inebriation among his subjects, and would pour molten lead (melting point 327 °C/621.43 °F) down the mouths of those caught in that condition. Similarly, in the 17th century Sultanate of Aceh Sultan Iskandar Muda (r. 1607–36) is said to have poured molten lead into the mouths of at least two drunken subjects. Military discipline in 19th-century Burma was reportedly harsh, with strict prohibition of smoking opium or drinking arrack. Some monarchs, it