concubina

• “Moreover the term concubina did not have the sense of a casual mistress or prostitute, but of a monogamous, long-term union.9 However, it was one thing for an emperor to live with his concubine, and quite another for that concubine to be accepted as the prospective ancestress of his future family line.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Putatur autem istum Mahomet habuisse generationis ortum de Ismael Abrahæ filio naturali de concubina”

  The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Putatur autem istum Mahomet habuisse generationis ortum de Ismael Abrah� filio naturali de concubina”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Timnah autem fuit concubina Eliphaz filii Esau, et peperit ipsi”

  Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2

• “Et fuit quum habitaret Israel in terra ipsa, profectus est Reuben, et concubuit cum Bilhah concubina patris sui: et audivit Israel.”

  Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2

• “Et concubina ejus, cujus nomen Reumah, peperit etiam ipsa Tebah, et”

  Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1

• “Jugurthamque, filium Mastanabalis fratris, quem Masinissa, quod ortus ex concubina erat, privatum dereliquerat, [42] eodem cultu quo liberos suos domi habuit.”

  C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino

• “Huga, king of the Franks, had a filium quem ex concubina genuit -- Widukind, _Res Gest.”

  A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.

• “In England, late in the thirteenth century, Bracton speaks of the _concubina legitima_ as entitled to certain rights and considerations, and it was the same in other parts of Europe, sometimes for several centuries later (see Lea, _History of Sacerdotal Celibacy_, vol. i, p. 230).”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

• “Gulielmus dixit quod ita magnum peccatum erat jacere cum uxore sua quam cum concubina.”

  Life of St. Francis of Assisi

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