Tossing in a BLANKET, a ludicrous kind of punishment, of which we find mention in the ancients under the denomination sagatio. Martial describes it geographically enough. Ibis ab excusso, missus ad astra, sago. A late writer represents it as one of Otho's imperial delights. But this is turning the tables: that emperor's diversion, as related by Suetonius, was not to be the subject, but the agent, in the affair: it being his practice to stroll out in dark nights, and where he met with a helpless or drunken man, to give him the discipline of the blanket.