lex Pompeia de parricidiis

lex Pompeia de parricidiis
/leks pompiya diy paerasay diyas/
The law which inflicted a punishment on one who had caused the death of a parent or child. The offender was by this law to be sewn up in a sack with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the sea or a river, so that even in his lifetime he might begin to be deprived of the use of the elements; that the air might be denied him whilst he lived and the earth when he died

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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