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" Roman law, parricide, or the murder of one's parents or children, was punished in a much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape,... "
The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy ... - Page 11
1826
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 4

William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...any other kind of homicide. After being fcourged, the delinquents were fewed up in a leathern fack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and fo caft into the fea r. Solon, it is true, in his laws, made none againft parricide ; apprehending...
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The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and ...

Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. Ufter being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a...it impossible that any one should be guilty of so inn utural a barbarity. The Persians, according to Herodotus, entertained the same notion, when they...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a...is true, in his laws, made none against parricide; apprehending it impossible that any one should be guilty of so unnatural a barbarity '. And the Persians,...
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Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another], Volume 4

sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a...is true, in his laws, made none against parricide ; apprehending it impossible that any one should be guilty of so unnatural a barbarity '. And the Persians,...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...a severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thus cast into the sea. Solon, it is true, in his laws, made none against parricide; apprehending it...
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The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...

Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leather HF3\ Y Z e e d h h h d2G3G4G5G{h|h X h a g g V c gta ; apprehending it impossible that any one should be guilty of so unnatural a barbarity. And the Persians,...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an ..., Volume 4

William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...mi loss the child delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, be servant to the a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into the sea (r). Solon, "* it is true, in his laws, made none against parricide ; apprehending it impossible that...
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The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition: To which is Added, a Valuable ...

Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...sack, with alive dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cait into the sea. Sulon, it is true, in hip laws made none against parricide, conceiving it impossible...entertained the same notion, when they adjudged all persone who killed their reputed parents to be illegitimate; and to some such reason as this must lie...
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Dictionary of dates, and universal reference

Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...father, the Romans first scourged the parricide ; then sewed him up in a leathern sack made air-tight, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thus cast him into the sea. The old Egyptians used to run sharp reeds into every part of the bodies...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Revised Edition, Volumes 1-2

Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...Pope only died; his son, by the strength of yonth and nature, and an of potent remedies, recovered. PARRICIDE. Parricide was by the Roman law punished...with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so caas into the sea. Solon, it is true, in his laws mad• none agaiust parricide, conceiving it impossible...
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