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Genre Date Source Texts Translations  
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.13 Militem, qui iuraverat se deserturum, imperator occidit et reus fit caedis. A general killed a soldier who had sworn that he would desert; he is accused of murder. View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.14 Reus est Ulixes lesae rei publicae, quod procos occiderit. Ulixes is charged with the crime of harming the state because of killing the suitors. View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.15 Vicini adulescentuli, qui speciosas uxores habebant, noctu alterutrum obvium habuerunt: accusant invicem adulterii. Two young neighbours, who had beautiful wives, met during the night; they accuse each other of adultery. View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.16 Petebat ab alio usuram, quasi pecuniae creditae; ille accepisse se pecuniam confitebatur, sed depositam et idcirco velle se restituere sortem sine usu... A man asked another man (to pay) the interest for the money that - as he mantained - he had lent him; the other one admitted that he had received the ... View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.18 Scipio victis Poenis petit praemium, ut spectet ludos laurea coronatus. After defeating the Carthaginians, Scipio asks as a reward to be allowed to attend the games wearing a laurel wreath. View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.18 Inpudicitiae reus fortiter fecit: petit praemii nomine accusatoris sui mortem. A man accused of unchasteness fought heroically: as his reward, he asks for the death of his accuser. View
Controversia IV AD Aug.Rhet.18 Pauper vestimenta vendebat: extitit alius pauper, qui vindicaret ea et furto ablata esse sibi diceret. Ille venditor ait se ab adultero deprehenso ill... A poor man was selling clothes; another poor man came and claimed them, maintaining that they had been stolen from him. The seller said that he had ta... View
Controversia VI AD Boeth.Specul. Rhet. Cogn.9 (pl Lxiv, Col. 1221, 9-11) ... ut qui iuvenem de lupanari exeuntem vidit, paulo post de eodem loco uxorem suam vidit egressam, accusat iuvenem adulterii. Like in the following example: a man saw a young man coming out of a brothel, and shortly after he saw his wife coming out of the same place; he accus... View
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.1 Quinque cum tyranno proximi familiae puniantur. Quae habebat duos filios et tyrannum virum, tyrannicidium fecit. Praemio impunitatem liberis postulavi... A tyrant and his five closest family members shall be subject to the death penalty. A certain woman who had two sons and a tyrant as her husband commi... View
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.2 Matrona Aethiopem peperit. Arguitur adulterii. A married woman gave birth to a black son. She is accused of adultery. View