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Controversia VI AD AnonymousAnth. Lat.1.1.21 "Sacrilegus capite puniatur". De templo Neptuni aurum perit. Interposito tempore, piscator piscem aureum posuit et titulo inscripsit ‘De tuo tibi, ... "An impious person shall be liable to capital punishment". Gold objects disappeared from Neptune's temple. After some time, a fisherman dedicated a go...
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.135.2-4 Walz ἀριστεὺς ἀπέθανεν ἐπὶ σημείοις φαρμάκων, καταλιπὼν τὴν μητρυιὰν καὶ αἰχμάλωτον παλλακίδα, καὶ ἀντεγκαλοῦσιν ἀλλήλαις.... A war hero died with signs of poisoning, leaving his stepmother and a prisoner of war, who was his concubine; the women accuse each other.
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.247.26-30 Walz γυνὴ καὶ ἀνὴρ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐκακώθησαν τῷ αύτῷ νοσήματι· μετεπέμψαντο ἰατρὸν, φίλον τοῦ ἀνδρὸς, καὶ ὁ μὲν ἀνὴρ ἀπέθανεν, ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ὑγίανη, μετὰ ταῦτα ἤ... A husband and wife were affected by the same disease; they sent for a doctor, a friend of the man. Whereas the man died, his wife recovered. Then the ...
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.362.12-14 Walz ἐπὶ σημείοις φαρμάκων ἀριστεὺς ἐτελεύτα, μητρυιὰν ἔχων καὶ αἰχμάλωτον παλλακίδα, καὶ ἀντεγκαλοῦσιν ἀλλήλοις τὸν φόνον.... A war hero died with signs of poisoning, leaving his stepmother and a prisoner of war, who was his concubine; the women accuse each other.
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.354.6-9 Walz ἀνὴρ καὶ γυνὴ τὴν αὐτὴν νόσον ἐνόσουν, δέδωκέ τις ἰατρὸς τοῖς δύο τὸ αὐτὸ φάρμακον, τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τελευτήσαντος τὴν γυναῖκα ἔγημε, καὶ κρίνεται μοιχείας ... A husband and wife suffered from the same disease; a doctor gave them both the same medicine; the man died, and the doctor married the woman: he is ac...
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.356.14-18 Walz τύραννος ἐνόσει, ὑποπτεύσας τὸν ἴδιον ἰατρὸν μετεκαλέσατο ξένον, ἀνελθὼν δέδωκε φάρμακον ὡς ἀλεξιφάρμακον, καὶ κατελθὼν ἔφη "τεθνήξεται"· τέθνηκε, καὶ... A tyrant fell ill. Suspicious of his personal doctor, he sent for a new doctor. The doctor came and gave him medicine as an antidote; while leaving, h...
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.122.14-20 Walz προσῆλθέ τις μνώμενος κόρην· εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ, αὐτὴν θᾶττον ἀποθανεῖν, ἢ πρὸς γάμον ἐκείνῳ δοθῆναι, καὶ εὕρηται ἡ κόρη ἐπὶ σημείοις φαρμάκων ἀνῃρημένη· ἀ... A man proposed marriage to a girl; the girl’s mother said that her daughter would die before she would marry him. The girl was found murdered with sig...
Controversia Not defined AnonymousIn Hermog. Rhet.7.748.7-12 Walz Μνωμένῳ τινὶ κόρην ἡ μήτηρ ἔφη τῆς κόρης, θᾶττον τεθνήξεσθαι αὐτὴν, ἢ ἐκείνῳ δοθῆναι· ἀπέθανεν ἐπὶ σημείοις φαρμάκων ἡ παῖς, εἶτα βασανίζων ὁ πατὴρ τὰ... A man proposed marriage to a girl; the girl’s mother told him that her daughter would die before she could marry him. The girl died with signs of pois...
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.5 ... an decernendum Duillio praemium. ... whether one should grant a reward to Duillius.
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.13 Iuravit se non ducturum uxorem et abdicatur. (A man) swore that he would never get married and (as a consequence) is disowned (by his father).