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  2. Poena cullei - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    Italian profanity (bestemmia, pl. bestemmie, when referred to religious topics; parolaccia, pl. parolacce, when not) are profanities that are blasphemous or inflammatory in the Italian language. The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and ...

  4. Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Capital punishment in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    6 languages. العربية ... Poena cullei This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Hell Opened to Christians - Wikipedia

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    Hell Opened to Christians was written by the Italian priest and author Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti. Pinamonti was born on December 27, 1632 [3] [4] in Pistoia to a family of noble origin. [1] In 1647, he entered the Society of Jesus. He was forced by illness to give up his studies, abandoning a teaching career for mission work in the Italian ...

  7. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Poena cullei, used during the Roman Empire. The victim was stuffed into a sack with a number of animals and thrown into a body of water. Asphyxia: Suffocation in ash. Carbon monoxide poisoning by burning coal in a sealed room. [2] Premature burial. Used for Vestal virgins who broke their vows. By strangulation. The result of short-drop hanging ...

  8. abaco - abacus; abat-jour - bedside lamp; abate - abbot; abbacchiato - depressed/down; abbacinare - to dazzle; abbacinato - dazzled; abbagliante - dazzling

  9. Leges regiae - Wikipedia

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    The leges regiae ('royal laws') were early Roman laws which classical historians such as Plutarch thought had been introduced by the semilegendary kings of Rome. [1]Though sometimes questioned, [2] [3] scholars of the modern era generally have accepted that the laws or the ultimate sources for them originated very early in Roman history, even as early as the period of the Roman Kingdom (753 ...