ABSTRACT Plautus’ Mostellaria contains the first attestation of the attribution of potestas over children to both parents, the mother as well as the father, in ancient Rome. Such an early analogy between pater and mater regarding their social status as parentes, along with a certain correlation between the parents’ duties and their power over their children, seems to suggest that a new social conception of the Roman family was already spreading in Plautus’ day, concurrently with the progressive recognition of natural kinship (cognatio). Set in the framework of the legal and literary sources on this matter, the excerpt brings under discussion the traditional motionless view of the patria potestas and appears to be particularly significant in reconstructing not only the real social and legal status of the Roman mater but also the historical development of the legal system in ancient Rome.

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“在 fabrorum potestate”：普劳图斯和古罗马母亲的力量

摘要 Plautus 的 Mostellaria 包含了古罗马对孩子的权力归属于父母双方（母亲和父亲）的首次证明。父亲和母亲之间关于他们作为父母的社会地位的这种早期类比，以及父母的职责和他们对孩子的权力之间的某种相关性，似乎表明罗马家庭的新社会概念已经在普劳图斯传播开来。日，同时逐步承认自然亲属关系（cognition）。在有关此事的法律和文学来源的框架内，