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Rape in antiquity was a matter of social and civic class. As a crime, it was understood as happening only to citizens: sexual assault of non-citizens was not a concern of law. The law took rape of citizens very seriously. Rape of citizen girls and women was a violation against the men who were responsible for them—father, husband, brother ...
Jul 21, 2023 · ISBN: 9780199580316. Publication Date: 2012-04-01. The Oxford Latin Dictionary is the world's most authoritative dictionary of classical Latin, with comprehensive coverage of the language from its beginnings until AD 200. More than fifty years in the making, and originally published in a series of fascicles (parts) from 1968, it was ...
Extract. Eutropius the historian, probably from Gaul, who took part in Julian's Persian campaign (363 ce) and was *magister memoriae of Valens, published a survey of Roman history (Breviarium ab urbe condita) in ten books. Beginning with Romulus, he reached the Sullan Civil War in book 5, Caesar's death in book 6 and covered the empire to ...
dictator. Iulius Caesar (2), C. reception. The reception of Caesar constitutes, for obvious reasons, an immense topic. As a political idea, Caesar exhibits from the very beginning a tension between his role as dictator and destroyer of the Republic and his standing as the political and military genius who founded the Empire.
The expression rem divinam facere, ‘to make a thing sacred’, often abridged to facere (‘to sacrifice’), and the etymology of the words designating sacrificial activity, sacrificare, sacrificium (sacrum facere, ‘to perform a religious ceremony’), show the importance of these acts and signal that sacrifice was an act of transfer of ...
Latin had five basic vowels— a, i, u, e, o —each of which could be either long or short. These may be described phonetically in terms of the degree of raising of the tongue and the part of the tongue involved. Thus a is low (or “open”) central, i is high (or “close”) front, u is high back, e is mid-front, and o is mid-back.
