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Poena Cullei

Ancient Rome · Penalty of the sack

Poena Cullei

The Act

A person convicted of parricide was sewn into a sack with live animals (typically a dog, snake, rooster, and monkey) and thrown into water.

The Response

The punishment was prescribed in Roman law for a specific crime and largely disappeared with the end of the Republic/Empire legal order.

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