Controversia II AD
Calpurnius Flaccus - Exc. (Calpurnius FlaccusExc.19)
Text
In pestilentia, responsum est finem futurum immolato eo, qui patrem non haberet. Offert se abdicatus. Qui abdicavit, contradicit.
Translation
During a plague an oracle advised that it would end when a man who had no father was sacrificed. A disinherited son volunteers. The man who disinherited him contests it.
Main Characters
Father, Son
Characters
Issues
Accusations
Possibility of volunteering to be sacrificed
Narrative themes
Disinheritance, Oracle, Plague, Sacrifice