LEX POMPEIA DE PARRICIDIIS

lex Pompeia de parricidiis (leks pom-pee-<<schwa>> dee par-<<schwa>>-sI-dee-is). [Latin] Roman law.A law of 70 or 55 B.C. defining what murders amounted to parricide and establishing a special expiatory punishment, in which the offender was executed by being sewn up in a sack with a dog, a rooster, a viper, and a monkey, and thrown into the sea or a river.

[Blacks Law 8th]