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                    "description": "paelex | pēlex, icis | pellex (noun F) : (, , ), ,  akin to Sanscr. pallavaka, girl; Gr. παλλακίς, concubine\n* A kept mistress, concubine of a married man.\n* Lit.: antiqui proprie eam pelicem nominabant, quae uxorem habenti nubebat. Cui generi mulierum etiam poena constituta est a Numā Pompilio hāc lege: paelex aram Junonis ne tangito, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 Müll.; cf. Gell. 4, 3, 3: libro Memorialium Masurius scribit: pelicem apud antiquos eam habitam, quae, cum uxor non esset, cum aliquo tamen vivebat eamque nunc vero nomine amicam, paulo honestiore concubinam appellari,Dig. 50, 16, 144; Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 39; id. Merc. 4, 1, 24 et saep.—With gen. of the wronged wife: filiae paelex,Cic. Clu. 70, 199; id. Or. 30, 108: tune eris et matris paelex et adultera patris?Ov. M. 10, 347: illa Jovis magni paelex, metuenda sorori,id. H. 14, 95: fugit (Medea) ulta paelicem, Magni Creontis filiam,Hor. Epod. 5, 63: horrida,Juv. 2, 57.— Poet., of the cows, as rivals of Pasiphaë, who had become enamoured of a bull, Ov. A. A. 1, 321.\n* Transf.\n* A kept mistress, concubine, in gen. (post-class.): virginem constupratam servo suo paelicem dederat,Curt. 10, 1, 5: Artaxerxi regi Persarum ex paelicibus centum et quindecim filii fuere,Just. 10, 1, 1; cf.: Granius Flaccus scribit, pelicem quosdam vocare eam, quae uxoris loco sine nuptiis in domo sit. Dig. 50, 16, 144.\n* A male prostitute (postclass.), Paul. ex Fest. p. 222 Müll.: Dolabella eum (Caesarem) pelicem reginae (appellavit), as the favorite of King Nicomedes,Suet. Caes. 49; in apposition, pelices ministri,Mart. 12, 97, 3.—*\n* Comically,   a substitute: quoties pelex culcita facta mea est (sc. matellae),Mart. 14, 119, 2."
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