• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    “Raptam esse mimulam.” Quod dicitur Atinae factum a iuventute, vetere quodam in scenicos iure maximeque oppidano. O adolescentiam traductam eleganter! cui quidem cum, quod licuerit, obiiciatur, tamen id ipsum falsum reperiatur.

    “A little mime-actress is said to have been raped.” It’s said that this was done at Atina by a group of youths, using a certain old custom allowed at the scenic games, especially in country towns. What an honorably-conducted young manhood! He is reproached with something he was permitted to do, and yet that very reproach is found to be baseless.

    • Cicero defending a rapist’s ‘character’

    While Julius Caesar would later pass a law unambiguously demanding the death penalty for all rapists of free individuals, this poor girl was about ten years too early to be served justice by the law.

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      Well - if she would have been a slave that law change wouldn’t have done anything for her either, or would it?

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        If she was a slave it wouldn’t have helped her, unfortunately.

        However, it probably would not have even been mentioned by Cicero (or the rapist’s enemies, for that matter) if she was a slave.