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PARRICIDE - LoveToKnow Article on PARRICIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The Lex Porn peia de parricidiis (52 B.C.) re-enacted the principal provisions of the Lex Corneia and defined parricide as the deliberate and wiongful slaying of ascendarits, husbands, wives, cousins, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, stepfathers and mothers, fathers and mothers-in-law, patrons and descendants. |
 | | Before the Revolution, the parricide if a male, had to make a recantation of his crime, and then suffered the loss of his right hand; his body was afterwards burned and the ashes scattered to the winds. |
 | | the parricide was brought to the place of execution clad in a shirt, bare-footed, and the head enveloped in a fl veil. |
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