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Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') [1] under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack , with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.
The Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis (or veneficiis) [1] (The Cornelian Law against Murderers and Poisoners) was a Roman statute enacted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 81 BC during his dictatorship to write laws and reconstitute the state (legibus scribundis et rei publicae constituendae) [2] which aimed at the punishment of murderers, poisoners, abortionists, human sacrifice, and malign ...
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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
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The work's consideration on the punishments of Hell is twofold, analyzing the Poena Sensus (pain of the senses) and Poena Damni (pain of the loss of Heaven). [1] The first three days' meditations treat the Poena Sensus, specifically focusing on 1. the prison of Hell, 2. the fire of Hell, and 3. the company of the Damned.
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