Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Named Commoner

Wang Longke 王隴客

Died AD 471

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Longke was a Named Commoner.

Life and dates

Death

AD 471 to AD 499 高祖
Torture, beheading, and dismemberment · Authority Yu Luohou (于洛侯)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 9, 11

Attested activity

AD 471 to AD 499 高祖
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 95, passages 9, 15

Events and relationships

Killed
Legal · Offender · With Wang Qiangnu (王羌奴) · Outcome Killed Wang Qiangnu and Wang Yu; by law deserved death only
Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 9
Tortured to death
Legal · Victim · With Yu Luohou (于洛侯)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passages 9-11

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 95, passage 9

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 95Volume 89: Cruel Officals: Yu Luohou, Hu Ni, Li Hongzhi, Gaozun Zhang Sheti, Yang Zhi, Cui Xian, Li Dao Yun · 3 passages

百姓王隴客刺殺民王羌奴、王愈二人，依律罪死而已，洛侯生拔隴客舌，刺其本，并刺胸腹二十餘瘡。 The commoner Wang Longke had killed Wang Qiangnu and Wang Yu—an offense that by law merited execution and nothing more. Luohou tore out Longke's tongue while he still lived, stabbed his groin, and drove more than twenty wounds into his chest and belly.

隴客不堪苦痛，隨刀戰動。 Longke could not bear the agony; his body convulsed with every thrust of the knife.

乃立四柱磔其手足，命將絕，始斬其首，支解四體，分懸道路。 He then set up four posts and impaled Longke's limbs upon them. Only when life was nearly extinguished did he behead him, quarter the body, and hang the pieces along the roads.