Parricidium and the Penalty of the Sack
Year: 2021

The author examines the crime of parricide, its legal regulation, and the penalty of the sack. It belonged to the Roman tradition for a manifest perpetrator who confessed his crime. Those who were sentenced in a jury trial were exiled according to the lex Cornelia de siccariis and probably also under the lex Pompeia de parriciddis. Under Constantine the penalty of the sack became a regular sanction laid down for parricide. The exact way it was carried out was not prescribed but was subject to th