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.