Spadones

SPADONES, civil law. Those who, on account of their temperament, or some accident they have suffered, are unable to procreate. Inst. 1, 11, 9; Dig. 1, 7, 2, 1; and vide Impotence.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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(1956), << Eunucos, castratos e spadones no direito romano >>, in Varieta guiridiche.
Etre et ne pas etre : le droit civil francais et l'impossible troisieme sexe
Seneca writes that Maecenas paraded about Rome during the civil wars escorted by two eunuchs (cui tunc maxime civilibus bellis strepentibus et sollicita urbe et armata comitatus hic fuerit in publico spadones duo, Ep.
Maecenas and Petronius' Trimalchio Maecenatianus
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