the divorce
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
divorce · a merely nominal divorce · divortium · repudium · the woman's divorce
spoken of as
2 expressionsDivorce2 mentions
Apologeticum (Latin) · Institutes of Roman Law (English)
Where is that happiness of marriages, prospered surely by good morals, by which for nearly six hundred years from the founding of the city no household wrote a divorce?
Divortium“divorce”1 mention
Institutes of Roman Law (English)
’ The lex Julia de adulteriis prescribed a form for repudium, and required the message to be delivered by a freedman of the family, in the presence of seven witnesses above the age of puberty and citizens of Rome.
in the texts
Against Onetor I
The registration of divorce between Aphobus and Onetor's sister, which Demosthenes argues was a sham arranged to protect Aphobus's property from judgment.
Now, men of the jury, I shall prove to you that the woman made a merely nominal divorce, but was in reality living with Aphobus as his wife.
She was married in the archonship of Polyzelus, in the month of Scirophorion, and the divorce was registered in the month of Poseidon, in the archonship of Timocrates.
Besides all this, men of the jury, there is strong evidence from which it is easy to see that the woman in reality continued to live with Aphobus and even up to the present day has not separated from him.
Institutes of Roman Law
Dissolution of Roman marriage by consent or unilateral repudiation, with its formula and successive legal regulation.
’ The lex Julia de adulteriis prescribed a form for repudium, and required the message to be delivered by a freedman of the family, in the presence of seven witnesses above the age of puberty and citizens of Rome.
Apologeticum
The dissolution of marriage, said to have been absent for six hundred years and now common.
Where is that happiness of marriages, prospered surely by good morals, by which for nearly six hundred years from the founding of the city no household wrote a divorce?