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Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.33 Meretrix servum suum amantem se in crucem agit. Appellat tribunos ille de iniusto supplicio. A prostitute leads off to crucifixion her slave who is in love with her. This man appeals to the tribunes for intervention on the grounds of unjust pu...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.34 "Rapta raptoris mortem aut indotatas nuptias petat". Raptam pater vinculis continet, raptor duci ad magistratus desiderat. “A raped woman may ask for the death of the rapist or marriage to him without a dowry”. A father keeps his daughter in forced confinement after she wa...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.35 Repudiata est a marito, quae filium habebat. Petit assidue, ut reconciliaretur. Non impetravit. Postremo ait : ‘Vindicabo me’. Superduxit ille puero n... A husband divorced a woman who bore his son. She kept asking for a reconciliation. She was unsuccessful. At last she said, ‘I’ll get my revenge.’ The ...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.36 “Desertor duci serviat”. “Viro forti praemium”. Pauper et dives inimici. Dives creatus est imperator. Pauper sub illo cum filio specioso adulescente m... “A deserter shall become his commander’s slave”. “A war hero shall receive a reward”. A poor man and a rich man were enemies. The rich man was appoint...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.37 Diversas meretrices amabant pater et filius. Pater filio pecuniam dedit, ut amatam patris redimeret. Ille suam redemit. Abdicatur. A father and a son were conducting love affairs with different mistresses. The father gave his son money to buy the release of the one loved by the fa...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.38 Ex tribus filiis, duo patrem dementiae accusaverunt et superati secundum legem puniti sunt. Tertius instituit accusare. Reddit pater causam mortis vol... Two of three sons accused their father of insanity and, after they lost, were punished according to the law. The third son instituted an accusation. T...
Suasoria II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.39 Absentis viri fortis filium tyrannus petit sibi dedi denuntians bellum. Accepit. Regresso eo, suadetur bellum tyranno indici. Vir fortis contradicit. Threatening war otherwise, a tyrant demands that the son of an absent war hero be surrendered to him. He got the son. When the hero returned, a propos...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.40 Veneficii sit actio. Adulescens petit nuptias virginis a patre. Pater virginis ad uxorem retulit. illa respondit: “ante morietur, quam illi nubat.” Pa... Let there be an action for poisoning. A young man asks the father of a young woman for her hand in marriage. The father of the young woman brings the ...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.41 "Raptarum lex". Rapuit quidam virginem et ephebo, quem amabat, tradidit stuprandam. Rapta, ad magistratus producta, mortem ephebi petit. Offert se ill... "The law dealing with raped women". A certain man abducted a young lady and handed her over to be sexually violated by a youth with whom she was in lo...
Controversia II AD Calpurnius FlaccusExc.42 "Magistratus de confesso sumat supplicium". "De iniusto supplicio tribunos appellare liceat". Quae quattuor liberos habebat, amissis tribus et marito,... “A magistrate may exact punishment from a person who has confessed to a crime”. “One may appeal to the tribunes for intervention in a case of unjust p...