“Both were executed, along with 52 others suspected of involvement in the machinations of Batz, dressed in red, the colour of parricide.”

“Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.”

“Now, when we see that in Rome the parricide was whipped with the red twigs of the cornel tree, an arbor infelix, the conclusion seems evident.”