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Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.13 Tyrannicidae praemium. Tyrannus suspicatus sibi venenum datum ab eo medico, quem in arce habebat, torsit eum; ille pernegavit. Misit ad medicum civita... There is a reward for slaying a tyrant. Suspecting that he had been given a poison by the doctor whom he kept on call in his citadel, the tyrant tortu...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.14 Addictus feneratori serviat. Abdicatus de bonis paternis nihil habeat. Libertorum bona ad patronos pertineant. Quidam, ex duobus liberis, alterum abdi... “One who is assigned for debt shall serve in the capacity of a slave to the moneylender”. “A disinherited son shall possess none of his father’s estat...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.15 “Desertor capite puniatur”. “Ter vir fortis militia vacet”. “Praemium victor imperator accipiat”. Ter virum fortem imperator coegit ad bellum. Coactus... “A deserter shall be executed”. “A man decorated for bravery three times shall be exempt from military service”. “A victorious general shall receive a...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.16 Lex raptarum. Rapta producta ad magistratus tacuit et flevit. Magistratus de raptore supplicium sumpsit. Puella se interemit. Reus est magistratus, qu... "The statute regarding raped women". A raped woman brought before the magistrates said nothing and just wept. One magistrate had the rapist put to dea...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.17 "Civitatem peregrinus usurpans veneat". Pauper et dives inimici. Visi sunt in gratiam redisse. Pauper, accusatus peregrinitatis, venit, emit eum dives... “A foreigner who passes himself off as a citizen shall be sold into slavery”. A rich man and a poor man were enemies. They appeared to become reconcil...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.18 Abdicati ad curiam convenerunt armati, petentes revocari. Unus ex patribus contradixit. Filius eius se interemit. Idem suadet, ut recipiantur. A group of disinherited sons under arms assembled at the senate house petitioning to be reinstated. One of the fathers spoke against the measure. His ...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.19 In pestilentia, responsum est finem futurum immolato eo, qui patrem non haberet. Offert se abdicatus. Qui abdicavit, contradicit. 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 disinherit...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.20 Ex duobus geminis, alter prostat, alter reddit in senatu causas mortis voluntariae. One of two twins hires out as a male prostitute, the other delivers his reasons for suicide before the senate.
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.21 “Virorum fortium facta pingantur”. “Viri fortes de praemio armis contendant”. Fratres fortiter fecerunt. Pater a minori petit, ut maiori cederet. Non ... “The brave deeds of heroes shall be painted in pictures”. “Heroes shall contend in combat over a reward”. [Two] brothers fought heroically. Their fath...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.22 “Tyrannicidae praemium”. “Praemio cedere liceat”. Qui novercam habebat, occidit tyrannum. Cessit novercae praemio. Illa privigni nuptias petit. Conten... “There is a reward for slaying a tyrant”. “A person may renounce a reward in another’s favor”. A certain man who had a stepmother killed a tyrant. He ...