[PAULUS libro decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.144.prLibro memorialium Massurius scribit 'pellicem' apud antiquos eam habitam, quae, cum uxor non esset, cum aliquo tamen uiuebat: quam nunc uero nomine amicam, paulo honestiore concubinam appellari.
[PAULUS, from the tenth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.]\n\nMassurius writes in his book of Memorials that among the ancients, a woman was deemed a 'pellex' (mistress) who, although she was not a wife, nevertheless lived with some man; and that now she is called 'amica' (friend) by her true name, and 'concubina' (concubine) by a somewhat more respectable name.
Granius Flaccus in libro de iure Papiriano scribit pellicem nunc uolgo uocari, quae cum eo, cui uxor sit, corpus misceat: quosdam eam, quae uxoris loco sine nuptiis in domo sit, quam παλλακὴν Graeci uocant.
Granius Flaccus writes in his book on the Papirian Law that nowadays a woman is commonly called a 'pellex' who unites bodily with one who has a wife; and that some [call by this name] a woman who is in the house in the position of a wife without marriage, whom the Greeks call 'pallake'.