The general consensus is poena cullei first appeared in Titus Livy’s History of Rome. The criminal was sewn up in a basic leather sack-and drowned, with death being the ultimate goal.
The Romans also ushered in the use of the poena cullei, meaning Penalty of the Sack. It was easy for anyone to accuse a man of breaking rank or willingly giving in to penetration by a man of lesser status. These rules, coupled with true love between men, really muddied up the waters. If the soldier willingly allowed the common citizen to penetrate him, he would be publicly disemboweled. If a common citizen decided to penetrate an unwilling soldier, the punishment was public castration. A general could make a move on a lieutenant or a common citizen, and soldiers could go after common citizens.Ĭlimbing up the social ladder was forbidden. For example, the emperor would get it on with anyone he wanted. In ancient Rome, the higher your status, the more people you were allowed to bone without consequence. Handfuls of barley were stuffed into her, and she was sewn back up-only to be given to wild hogs. After the young woman was no longer a virgin, she was publicly stripped, and her belly was sliced open, spilling her innards out. Saint Gregory described a heinous torture that was performed on young women by the people of Heliopolis while under Roman rule:Īny virgin who was to undergo this torture was first given to the gladiators. Death, while welcomed, came slowly for the victim of this torture. Maggots would crawl all over the accused, and vultures would peck at the animal’s decaying flesh. It would begin to decompose-with the living victim inside being cooked by the heat. The belly was stitched closed, leaving only the accused’s head outside, preventing suffocation but prolonging suffering.
The accused was then stripped of clothing and stuffed into the animal’s belly. Take, for instance, a torture that was described by both Apuleius ( The Golden Ass) and Lucian ( Lucius, or the Ass):Ī donkey would be killed, its belly sliced open, and the entrails removed. If you’re looking for cruel and unusual forms of torture, you don’t have to look any further than ancient Rome. There were always loopholes in the laws of ancient Rome, and the elite rulers exploited each and every one of them.
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That didn’t stop Rome’s elite from torturing the free men and women of their country, though. In fact, it was highly recommended that any free man accused of a crime would have his slaves tortured in his place, often to the death, so that a verdict could be reached. In ancient Rome, the general rule was that slaves could be freely tortured.