Il regime giuridico-sacrale della «pelex» tra «pallakia» e concubinato

[Machine translation] The very ancient figure of pelex - present in the royal legislation of archaic Rome and then merged, into classical Roman law, into the problem of concubinage - is investigated through the analysis of legal and antiquarian sources of reference. The contribution enucleates the historical reasons for the necessary distinction between the pelex of the archaic age and the concubine age, as outlined by legal and, even before that, social consciousness in the line that connects the middle of the first century BC to the age of the Severi. It also proposes an anticipation of the renewed interest in this figure at the Caesarian age, and an account is given of his further recovery in the work of preparation and subsequent commentary on the Augustinian marriage legislation.