Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Events

    the divorce

    event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    divorce · a merely nominal divorce · divorced · divortium · repudium · the woman's divorce

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    Divorce3 mentions

    Laws (Greek) · Apologeticum (Latin) · Institutes of Roman Law (English)

    but in case any are without issue to the end of this period, they shall take counsel in common to decide what terms are advantageous for both parties, in conjunction with their kindred and the women-officials, and be divorced.
    book 6

    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.
    ch. 54

    in the texts

    Against Onetor IClassical · Greek

    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.
    against onetor i
    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.
    against onetor i
    When I saw, men of the jury, that after the woman’s divorce had been registered with the archon, and after the defendant’s declaration that he had taken a mortgage on the farm to secure her marriage-portion, Aphobus continued to hold and till the land just as before, and to dwell with his wife, I knew well that all this was fiction and a pretence to cover up the facts.
    against onetor i

    Institutes of Roman LawClassical · English

    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.
    ch. 54

    LawsClassical · Greek

    Formal separation prescribed for couples who remain childless after ten years, decided in consultation with kin and officials.

    but in case any are without issue to the end of this period, they shall take counsel in common to decide what terms are advantageous for both parties, in conjunction with their kindred and the women-officials, and be divorced.
    book 6

    ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

    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?
    apologeticum