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Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus.
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Non minus si vinum bibissent ac si adulterium admisissent,
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Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus.
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Ipse sibi persuadent, quod adulterium cum principe vel cum praesule, non est pudor nec peccatum.
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I can give you good authority, -- none other than Martin Luther, who, in one of his disputations, says emphatically, '_Si in fide posset fieri adulterium, peccatum non esset_'; and he wrote still more plainly upon this point in one of his letters to Melancthon, saying, '_Ab hoc nos non avellet peccatum, etiamsi millies millies uno die fornicamur aut occidamus.
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For this use of _detegere_ compare _Met_ II 544-47 'ales/sensit adulterium
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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[129] _Stuprum_ is the name for every unchaste connexion with unmarried as well as with married women; but _adulterium_ is the illicit intercourse with married women.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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At the instance of the Archbishop of Mechlin, the Academy of Louvain, in the year 1653, censured as false and erroneous the proposition: "Copula cum conjugata consentiente marito non est adulterium, adeoque sufficit in confessione dicere se esse fornicatum."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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S. Augustinus adulterium legitimam esse dimittendi causam pronuntiat, sed non necessariam, lib. ii.
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Hinc ilium adulterium videri fatetur his qui accuratius examinant.
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