Stelle Si quis cum ancilla gentile [native...; (Edictus Rothari (643 - 643), MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 47) [5204]

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Keywords	Ethnonym: Romani, [wurzel: roman] Keyword: ancilla gentile (enslaved native woman), [wurzel: ancill* gentile] Keyword: ancilla romana (enslaved roman woman), [wurzel: ancill* roman*]
ID	5204
Text	Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair
Quotation	Si quis cum ancilla gentile [native] fornicatus fuerit, conponat domino eius solidos viginti; si cum romana ancilla, conponat solidi duodecim.
Translation	If anyone has intercourse with a native woman slave, he shall pay twenty solidi as composition to her lord. If he fornicates with a Roman woman slave, he shall pay twelve solidi as composition. (Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 89)
Summary	Rothari, No. 194 establishes a twenty solidi compositon for having sexual intercourse with another mans “native” [gentile] enslaved woman [ancilla] or a twelve solidi composition for having sex with another man’s enslaved Roman woman [romana ancilla].
Quotation source	MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 47
Temporal Coverage	643 - 643
Associated use case(s)	Law, Place and People: Langobard Legal Actors in the Lombard Laws
Comment	The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984].