Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), B, Bitūmen, Bonam Copiam Iurāre

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Bonam Copiam Iurāre

A phrase expressive of the act of taking an oath to one's solvency (Varro, L. L. vii. 105). The expression used by Cicero (Ad Fam. ix. 16), bonam copiam eiurare, is usually interpreted to mean the taking of an oath by a debtor to the fact of his insolvency. See Bonorum Cessio.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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