 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Oratory, Ancient - 1896 - 782 pages
...word is used by early writers in the plural only. be " beaten with blood-red rods, then sewed into a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the deep sea " (see below, sect. 29). 9 ä patronos : Cicero's modesty will not allow him... | |
 | Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons - Electronic books - 1906 - 684 pages
...there is no usual penalty ; the perpetrator and instigator or accomplice are sewn up in a leathern sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the neighbouring sea or river "so that during life he may begin to want the use of the... | |
 | James George Frazer - Civilization - 1909 - 102 pages
...of betel are not forgotten.1 We can now perhaps understand why the Romans used to sew up a parricide in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape for company, and fling him into the sea. They probably feared to defile the soil of Italy by spilling... | |
 | Stephen Haley Allen - Constitutional history - 1916 - 1238 pages
...parricide, deemed most execrable of all, the law Pompeia prescribed the following punishment, "he shall be sewed up in a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape, and being confined in this narrow deadly enclosure shall be thrown into the sea or river according to the... | |
 | John Marshall Gest - Law - 1925 - 724 pages
...not execution by the sword or by fire, or any ordinary form of punishment, but the criminal is sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and in this dismal prison is thrown into the sea or a river, according to the nature of the locality, in... | |
 | William McAdoo - Crime - 1927 - 346 pages
...parricide, or the killing of a parent. In the Lex Pompeia of the Romans parricides were ordained to be sewn in 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 mangled the body... | |
 | William McAdoo - Crime - 1927 - 336 pages
...parricide, or the killing of a parent. In the Lex Pompeia of the Romans parricides were ordained to be sewn in 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 mangled the body... | |
 | James George Frazer - Anthropology - 1927 - 208 pages
...of betel are not forgotten.2 We can now perhaps understand why the Romans used to sew up a parricide in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape for company, and fling him into the sea. They probably feared to defile the soil of Italy by spilling... | |
 | William Moses Feldman - Child care - 1927 - 794 pages
...318 AD, and decreed the same punishment for it as for parricide, viz., " That the murderer be sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper and a monkey, and thrown into a river or the sea." In the latter part of the same century, the Emperors... | |
 | Gregory Orr - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 346 pages
...related to the Roman punishment for parricide that Cicero records: the murderer is placed in a leather sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape and then drowned? If this obscure reference is relevant, then we are brought again to the father's death... | |
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... sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and in this dismal prison is thrown into the sea... 
