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"Marriage more shameful than adultery"
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11-28-2005, 12:04 PM
"Marriage more shameful than adultery": slave-mistress relationships, "mixed marriages," and late roman law
by JUDITH EVANS-GRUBBS

Quote:Roman law had never recognized monogamous sexual relationships between slaves, or between free people and slaves. Rather, such unions were termed contubernia and had none of the legal consequences of iustum matrimonium (legitimate marriage).
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