Controversia II AD

Calpurnius Flaccus - Exc. (Calpurnius FlaccusExc.30)

Text

Qui habebat filios frugi et luxuriosum, ob amore meretricis abdicavit. Abdicatus se ad meretricem contulit. Illic cum aegrotare coepisset, misit ad patrem et commendavit illi filium de meretrice susceptum rogans, ut eum in familiam recipiat, et obiit. Vult illum senex in familiam recipere. Reus est alteri filio dementiae.

Translation

A certain man who had two sons, one sober-minded, the other dissolute, disinherited because of his love affair with a prostitute. The disinherited son moved in with the prostitute. After he had started to become ill there, he dispatched to his father and commended to him the son that he had acknowledged of the prostitute, requesting that he take him into the family, and then he died. The old man wants to take him into the family. His other son charges him with insanity.


Main Characters

Dissolute son, Faher

Characters

Sober-minded son

Issues

Accusations

Insanity

Narrative themes

Dishineritance, Illness, Prostitute

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