Infamia
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a certain rock of infamy · ignominy · ignominy and loss of civil standing · infamia · infamy
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Legal condition of disgrace or loss of civic honour with public and private consequences.
In view of these consequences, infamia may at one time have been regarded as capitis minutio.
The political elements of civitas, suffragium and honores, were forfeited by infamy (infamia) or loss of civic honour (existimatio);
Besides extinguishing the political or public elements of civitas, infamia affected to a certain extent its private elements, both commercium and connubium;
De Spectaculis
The Roman legal status of infamy imposed on performers, cited as evidence that even pagan society condemns what it celebrates.
Since, therefore, human memory itself—even with the favour of pleasure clamouring against it—judges that they are to be condemned, the goods of dignities being taken away, to a certain rock of infamy, how much more does divine justice animadvert upon artists of this kind?
For the very authors and administrators of the spectacles—those charioteers, players, athletes, gladiators, those most beloved, to whom men submit their souls, and women even their bodies, for whose sake they commit themselves to those things which they reprehend—out of the same art by which they magnify them, they cast down and diminish, nay, manifestly condemn them with ignominy and loss of civi …