 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1890 - 614 pages
...Roman law, a person who had murdered a parent or any near relation, after being severely scourged, was sewed up in a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or a deep river. * 3 Gallos, which signifies both cocks and Gauls. the omens,... | |
 | William Smith - Art, Classical - 1891 - 1088 pages
...Paul. Sent. rec. v. 24). This consisted in the guilty person being first whipped till he bled, sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the sea or a river : if there was no water near, Hadrian sanctioned his being torn in pieces... | |
 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1896 - 576 pages
...Roman law, a person who had murdered a parent or any near relation, after being severely scourged, was sewed up in a sack, with a dog, a cock* a viper, and an ape, and then thrown into the sea, or a deep river. 1 A fine sand from the Nile, similar to puzzuolano y which... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 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 รค 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 - 1264 pages
...crime of 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 situation... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
