Book 4
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Moreover, a woman was called paelex, or concubine, and regarded as infamous, if she lived on terms of intimacy with a man who had another woman under his legal control in a state of matrimony, as is evident from this very ancient law, which we are told was one of king Numa's: F.J.R., p. 8, fr. 2; I, p. 135, Bremer. Let no concubine touch the temple of Juno; if she touch it, let her, with hair unbound, offer up a ewe lamb to Juno.
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Now paelex is the equivalent of pa/llac, that is to say, of pallaki/s. Walde, Lat. Etymn. Wörterb. s.v., regards paelex and the Greek pa/llac and pallaki/s, the former in the sense of a young slave, as loan words from the Phoenician-Hebrew pillegesh, concubine. The spelling pellex is due to popular etymology, which associated the word with pellicio, entice. Like many other words of ours, this one too is derived from the Greek.
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What Servius Sulpicius wrote in his work On Dowries about the law and usage of betrothals in early times.
