Poena cullei
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poena-cullei-168-6940287
title:
Poena cullei
text:
Poena cullei under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of patricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water. The punishment may have varied widely in its frequency and precise form during the Roman period. For example, the earliest fully documented case is from ca. 100 BC, although scholars think the p
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Roman execution method
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poena_cullei
date created:
2013-04-15T12:23:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:08:25Z
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