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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3594494, member: 76194"]As gruesome as being thrown from a rock to your death might sound, the Roman punishment for parricide, poena cullei, was even worse....</p><p><br /></p><p>You would be sewn up in a leather sack, with a bunch of live animals including a monkey, snake, dog, and a rooster, then thrown into the river to drown while the desperate animals attacked you as they died in the sack with you. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3594494, member: 76194"]As gruesome as being thrown from a rock to your death might sound, the Roman punishment for parricide, poena cullei, was even worse.... You would be sewn up in a leather sack, with a bunch of live animals including a monkey, snake, dog, and a rooster, then thrown into the river to drown while the desperate animals attacked you as they died in the sack with you. :jawdrop::vomit::eek:[/QUOTE]
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