The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, volume 10: Vespasian
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U. C. 762, A. D. 10.
[728] Cosa was a place in the Volscian territory; of which Anagni wasprobably the chief town. It lies about forty miles to the north-east ofRome.
[729] Caligula.
[730] These games were extraordinary, as being out of the usual courseof those given by praetors.
[731] "Revocavit in contubernium. " From the difference of our habits, there is no word in the English language which exactly conveys themeaning of contubernium; a word which, in a military sense, the Romansapplied to ...the intimate fellowship between comrades in war who messedtogether, and lived in close fellowship in the same tent. Thence theytransferred it to a union with one woman who was in a higher positionthan a concubine, but, for some reason, could not acquire the legalrights of a wife, as in the case of slaves of either sex. A man of rank, also, could not marry a slave or a freedwoman, however much he might beattached to her.
[732] Nearly the same phrases are applied by Suetonius to Drusilla, seeCALIGULA, c.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
U. C. 762, A. D. 10.
[728] Cosa was a place in the Volscian territory; of which Anagni wasprobably the chief town. It lies about forty miles to the north-east ofRome.
[729] Caligula.
[730] These games were extraordinary, as being out of the usual courseof those given by praetors.
[731] "Revocavit in contubernium. " From the difference of our habits, there is no word in the English language which exactly conveys themeaning of contubernium; a word which, in a military sense, the Romansapplied to ...the intimate fellowship between comrades in war who messedtogether, and lived in close fellowship in the same tent. Thence theytransferred it to a union with one woman who was in a higher positionthan a concubine, but, for some reason, could not acquire the legalrights of a wife, as in the case of slaves of either sex. A man of rank, also, could not marry a slave or a freedwoman, however much he might beattached to her.
[732] Nearly the same phrases are applied by Suetonius to Drusilla, seeCALIGULA, c.
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