Controversia IV AD - V AD

Hier. - Hebr. Quaest. In Libr. Genes. (Hier.Hebr. Quaest. In Libr. Genes.Praef. (p. 38 Lagarde))

Text

Et Quintilianus in ea controversia, in qua accusabatur matrona, quod Aethiopem pepererit, pro defensione illius argumentetur hanc conceptuum esse naturam.

Translation

And Quintilian, in the well-known "controversia" in which a married woman was accused to have given birth to a black son, to defend her maintains that this is the nature of conception.


Main Characters

Married woman

Characters

Black son

Issues

Accusations

Adultery

Narrative themes

Birth, Skin colour

Legal references

Historical references