 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1824 - 612 pages
...should ever be committed. By the Lex Pompeia of the Ro. mans parricides were ordained to be put into a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the sea, thus to perish by the most cruel of all tortures. The Egyptians also put snch... | |
 | Joannes van der Linden - Civil law - 1828 - 804 pages
...The punishment of parricides, with the Ro- PunUhmans, was very severe. The party was sewn parricide up in a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and * an " an ape ; left to the fury of these animals, and thus cast into the nearest sea or river. (s) With... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 642 pages
...652, D. c. 102, when Publicius Malleolus killed his mother. " The criminal was sewn up in a leathern sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so thrown into the Tiber. A new kind of expiation was also practised, which consisted in loading a... | |
 | Thomas Burton, Guibon Goddard, Great Britain. Parliament, 1640-1660 - Great Britain - 1828 - 640 pages
...652, B. c. 102, when Publicius Malleolus killed his mother. " The criminal was sewn up in a leathern sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so thrown into the Tiber. A new kind of expiation was also practised, which consisted in loading a... | |
 | Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1830 - 606 pages
...secunda. Juven. Sat. 8. 249. ' This year one Publicius Malleolus, for having murdered his mother, was sewed up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the river. Vid. Auct. ad Ilerenn. L 1. c. 13. Cic. Oral. c. 30. Ores. 1. 5. c. 16. This... | |
 | Nathaniel Hooke - Rome - 1830 - 604 pages
...secunda. Juven. Sat. 8. 249. r This year one Publicius Malleolus, for having murdered his mother, was sewed up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an «pe, anil thrown into the river. ' Vid. Auct. ad Herenn. L 1. c. 13. Cic. Orat. c. 30. Oros. L 5.... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Roman law - 1841 - 672 pages
...transaction, although a stranger. A criminal, in this case, is not put to death by the sword, by fire, nor by any ordinary punishment ; the law directs,...and, being put up in this horrid inclosure, shall bo thrown either into the sea, or an adjacent river, according to the situation of the place, where... | |
 | Christian life - 1841 - 188 pages
...if a child had the hardihood to take the life of a parent, he was first scourged severely, and then sewed up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape, and thrown into the sea. The laws of our land do not permit parents to exercise such great authority over... | |
 | Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...shall eat it." The Roman punishment for Parricide was that the offender, after being scourged, should be sewed up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape, and then be thrown into the sea or some deep river. Juvenal observes that Nero, who put to death his mother,... | |
 | John Boys - 1849 - 276 pages
...parent, is reputed a petty traitor. By the civil laws in olden time, an offender in that kind was sowed in a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into some deep water, as unworthy to reap the benefit of any element. For so Tully doth excellently... | |
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... sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and inclosed in this horrible prison he is to be, according to the nature of the place, thrown into the sea... 
