Connubium

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We have long known that the connubium was the cause of a long and determined struggle between the patricians and the plebeians in Rome. ❋ Various (N/A)

Beginning with the event of Pentecost, this connubium or "marriage" is manifested between the Spirit of Christ and his mystical body, that is, the Church. ❋ Papabear (2008)

But he turned himself forthwith into his own shape, began to embrace and offer violence unto her, sed illa matris metu abnuebat, but she by no means would yield, donec pollicitus connubium obtinuit, till he vowed and swore to marry her, and then she gave consent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like Macedonia, Greece was separated into parts, independent of each other, with no rights of _connubium_ or _commercium_. ❋ Robert Franklin Pennell (N/A)

In 445 the Tribune Canuleius proposed a bill which was passed, and called the CANULEIAN LAW, giving to the plebeians the right of intermarriage (_connubium_) with the patricians, and enacting that all issue of such marriages should have the rank of the father. ❋ Robert Franklin Pennell (N/A)

Intermarriage (_connubium_) between patricians and plebeians was forbidden previous to 445, and after that the offspring of such marriages took the rank of the father. ❋ Robert Franklin Pennell (N/A)

A group of groups may have some relation to each other (kin, neighborhood, alliance, connubium, and commercium) which draws them together and differentiates them from others. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Marriage (nuptiœ or connubium) was the association or community of life between man and woman, for the procreation and rearing of offspring, validly entered into between Roman citizens. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The connubium, or Roman marriage, was for Roman citizens: matrimonium existed among other free persons, and contubernium was the marital relation of slaves. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But it is related that the Barki group found that they could not obtain girls in marriage for their sons, so they extended the privileges of the _connubium_ to the Majhli group after taking a caste feast. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)

Hec magno patris tui amore perculsa, primum quidem ei connubium michi mortem parabat; postea vero, recusante ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

: "Sequitur animam nubentem spiritui caro; o beatum connubium"; and the still earlier Sap. ❋ Adolph Harnack (1890)

Attempts have actually been made to introduce this stupid forgery into history, and some portions of it have been adopted in the narrative of our historians; for example, that the ancient Alban nobility migrated with the two brothers to Rome; but if this had been the case there would have been no need of opening an asylum, nor would it have been necessary to obtain by force the _connubium_ with other nations. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

But now they wanted women, and attempts were made to obtain the _connubium_ with neighboring towns, especially perhaps with Antemnæ, which was only four miles distant from Rome, with the Sabines and others. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

In Rome there was a long struggle over the connubium. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

The tradition that the Sabine women were carried off because there existed no _connubium_, and that the rape was followed by a war, is undoubtedly a symbolical representation of the relation between the two towns, previous to the establishment of the right of intermarriage; the ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)

Lastly, Aulus Gellius quotes a brace of lines from one Licinius Imbrex, an old comic writer of the same century, who, in a _fabula palliata_ called Neaera, wrote: -- nolo ego Neaeram te vocent, aut Nerienem, cum quidem Marti es in connubium data. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

In Rome connubium held in the first instance between men and women who were citizens, though it might be extended to include Latins and foreigners. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Their unions were not recognized: a fact which reminds us of the distinction among the Romans between connubium and contubernium; and the children of a slave-mother by a free father remained slaves. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

A group of villages is sometimes united into a limited unity by connubium. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

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