M. Tulli Ciceronis Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino Oratio (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from M. Tulli Ciceronis Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino Oratio Roman jurists, intended to mark the horror with which so unnatural an offence was regarded. Cicero in cap. XXVI., §§ 71 - 72 describes how the guilty man was sewn up naked in a leather sack and cast into a running stream to drown. From another of his writings and from Justinian's Pandects we gather further particulars, that the parricide's head was bound up in a bag of wolf's skin, and that wooden sandals were bound on his feet - presumably to symbolise that he was unfit to breathe the air or touch the earth - after which he was kept in solitary confinement till the sack was ready. Then he was first scourged with scarlet rods, after which he was sewn into a leather sack into which were placed a dog, a cock, a viper and an ape, all of which, we must infer, conveyed to the Roman mind suggestions associated with unnatural or inhuman instincts. It is some satisfaction, however, to know that the penalty was rarely inflicted and only after a confession of guilt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.