adoption, Roman
Adolf Berger, Barry Nicholas, and Susan M. Treggiari
Adoptio is a legal act by which a Roman citizen enters another family and comes under the *patria potestas of its chief. Since only a paterfamilias (see patria potestas) could adopt, women could not ...
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adultery, Roman
Adolf Berger, Barry Nicholas, and Susan M. Treggiari
Roman tradition ascribed to fathers and husbands great severity in punishing illicit sexual behaviour by daughters or wives. Such misconduct was stuprum in married or unmarried women, an offence ...
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aediles, Roman magistrates
A. N. Sherwin-White and Andrew Lintott
The aediles originated as two subordinates of the tribunes of the plebs whose sacrosanctity they shared. Their central function was to supervise the common temple (aedes) and cults of the plebs, ...
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Aelius Marcianus
Tony Honoré
Aelius Marcianus, a lawyer of the early 3rd cent. ce, probably from the eastern provinces. Mainly a teacher, he does not seem to have given responsa (consultative opinions). His extensive ...
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Aelius Paetus, Sextus
Tony Honoré
Aelius Paetus, Sextus, a Roman lawyer nicknamed ‘Catus’ (clever) for his shrewd pragmatism, was consul in 198 bce. He was the author of Tripertita, so called because it contained three elements: the ...
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