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4、Poena Cullei
（溺斃）
The Romans had laws for everything, many of which have been adopted by Western civilization into their own judicial systems. However, capital punishment was quite prevalent in ancient Rome, being used for a number of crimes that we would simply jail someone for today. Poena cullei was a special type of capital punishment, one which was reserved for a particular crime: parricide, or murder of a member of one’s family.
羅馬有很多法規，現在有一部分曾被西方司法系統所采用。然而，死罰在過羅馬非常流行，被應用在很多我們現在在最多判個監禁的犯罪上。溺斃（沉水刑）是一種非常特殊的死刑，專門懲罰一些特殊的犯罪，如：殺害雙親罪、活著謀殺親屬罪。
Once convicted, the murderer would have his face covered with a wolf’s skinand sandals were placed on his feet (presumably to keep him from defiling the air or the ground). He would now wait in prison until a sack was made for him. Once it was ready, a dog, monkey, snake, and rooster were placed in the sack, along with the murderer, and the sack was thrown into a river or the ocean.
一旦定罪，人們就會用狼皮把兇手的臉蒙起來，然后在他的腳上穿上涼鞋（據說這樣可以不讓罪犯褻瀆徒土地或者空氣）。他將呆在監牢里，直到人們用麻袋把他裝起來。但這些準備工作做好了后，人們還會在麻袋里放一只狗，一只猴子，一條蛇和一只公雞，然后把裝著罪犯的麻袋扔進河里活著海里。
