intermarriage Copy link • intermarriage: connūbium (in legal sense, the right of i., as between patricians and plebeians): cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 37, connubia ut ne plebi et patribus essent sanxerunt (they made such i. illegal): he brought forward a bill to legalise the i. of the orders, de connubio patrum et plebis rogationem promulgavit, Liv. 4, init. Phr.: families connected by i., *matrimoniis inter se conjunctae familiae.
INTERMARRIAGE Copy link • INTERMARRIAGEby circumlocution with connubium est; connubia sunt aliquibus. They forbad, by a cruel law, the intermarriage of plebeians and patricians, connubia ut ne plebi et patribus essent, inhumanissima lege sanxerunt (Cic.): Canuleius proposed a law to saeiction the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians, de connubio patrum et plebis Canuleius rogationem promulgavit (Liv.): since no neighboring slates would allow of intermarriages with them, quippe quibus cum finitimis connubia non essent: they forbad intermarriages between the other states, ceteris populis connubia ademerunt. (☞ This was the jus connubii.) .