English Explanatory Dictionary

poena cullei

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of execution in Ancient Rome consisting of being sewn up in a sack, sometimes with live animals, and then being thrown into water.

Word forms

poena cullei

Etymology

From Latin poena culleī (literally “punishment of the sack”).

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