contubernium

Clodius explained they were a contubernium, a squad that shares a single tent.

Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004

There was no regular marriage among slaves, but their connexion was called contubernium.

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway

From the difference of our habits, there is no word in the English language which exactly conveys the meaning of contubernium; a word which, in a military sense, the Romans applied to the intimate fellowship between comrades in war who messed together, and lived in close fellowship in the same tent.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

From the difference of our habits, there is no word in the English language which exactly conveys the meaning of contubernium; a word which, in a military sense, the Romans applied to the intimate fellowship between comrades in war who messed together, and lived in close fellowship in the same tent.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

His 'castrense contubernium' with Titus (born A.D. 41) was probably in 55 or 56, when he was in the army of Pompeius Paulinus: cf. xxxiii.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The connubium, or Roman marriage, was for Roman citizens: matrimonium existed among other free persons, and contubernium was the marital relation of slaves.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

This the Church allowed from the beginning, while Pope Callistus I broke through the barrier of state law, and raised to the dignity of Christian marriage permanent unions between slave and free, and even those between slave and slave (contubernium).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Quibus factis juravit se patrem tuum quoque immortalem ostensuram esse, si me prius occisa regine contubernium mallet; neque enim ipsa me occidere valuit, propter nostratum magicam cujus egomet partem habeo.

She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Their unions were not recognized: a fact which reminds us of the distinction among the Romans between connubium and contubernium; and the children of a slave-mother by a free father remained slaves.

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

'Fugiebat oblectamenta carnalia, et ideo stratum molliorem, et viri contubernium secretissimum, quantum licuit, declinavit.

The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847