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Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack')
under Roman law was a type of
death penalty imposed on a
subject who had been
found guilty of parricide. The...
- from
Normandy to
Catalonia in the
early 12th century. He was a
native of
Cullei (modern
Rabodanges in Orne, France), as
reported by
Orderic Vitalis, and...
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Columella suggested that each
vineyard in Rome
produce a
quota of
three cullei of wine per jugerum; otherwise, the
vineyard would be uprooted. The nutrient-rich...
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Parrilla (torture) Pins/needles
underneath finger/toe
nails Pitchcapping Poena cullei Pressure points Punching Restraint Rape Rat
torture Riding a rail Sawing...
- had
killed their own relatives,
replacing the
older punishment of
poena cullei, the
stuffing of the
convict into a
leather sack,
along with a rooster,...
- sea (the so-called mazzeratura [it],
similar to the
ancient Roma
Poena cullei). The
atrocity prompted a
quick Western response; a huge army
under the...
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significantly moved to
replace the
traditional Roman penalty of the
Poena cullei for
poisoners and
practitioners of
malign magic,
which involved being sewn...
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horses (example: Al-Musta'sim, the last
Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad).
Poena cullei, used
during the
Roman Empire. The
victim was
stuffed into a sack with a...
- This
seems to
correspond with the Romano-Byzantine
punishment of
poena cullei (from
Latin "punishment of the sack"),
where those who
committed parricide...
- equipped,
storage jars in
which five
vintages amounting to
eight hundred cullei can be stored,
twenty storage jars for wine-press refuse,
twenty for grain...
