His mother's name was Ocrisia; but there is something vague about the paternity of the boy, which has been assigned sometimes to the Lar, or household god of the establishment, and sometimes to Vulcan.
But his whole nature revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this.
Frazer has further shown that even now some of the Australian aborigines are ignorant of the physical fact of paternity and its relation to sexual intercourse.
Into the particulars of their admixture, it will be as useless to inquire as it would be into the paternity of the goats on their mountains.
We come across examples of such beliefs in invisible agents of paternity even among the more cultivated Romans.
If your Paternity thinks that I seek the favour of princes more for my own sake than that of the Society, it is a bitter reproach, for I would rather die than be guilty of such a fault.
His Paternity was, therefore, requested to command him to observe more moderation and gentleness, and instead of handling the heretics angrily and roughly, to teach and exhort them with Christian charity.
But his whole nature revolted, and his old paternitycould not consent.
Unlike the Spartan, the Athenian had a regard for paternity and genealogy, and the only way he knew to insure it was the Asiatic.
Taking the five or six most advanced countries of Europe and America, it is safe to say that the paternity is certain in ninety cases out of a hundred.
If we now look at the Australians as described by eye-witnesses since the earliest exploring tours, we find a state of affairs which makes paternity uncertain in all cases without exception, and also a complete indifference on the subject.
In other words, he holds that the inscription reverses the order of paternity as given by Bede, Nennius, etc.
Unable to conceive such a truth, they cast about them accordingly to find the paternity of our American institutions in purely accidental causes.
In these we have the true paternity and spring of our institutions; and these, beyond a question, are the gift of our founders.
An ill-knit nation which does not recognise paternity as a legal relation, would be conquered like a mob by any other nation which had a vestige or a beginning of the patria potestas.
For was it conceivable that a law that quashed his paternity of his own children could indict him for his marriage with their mother?
I don't see how more than one lawyer can vouch personally for thepaternity of either of the kids.
His family have maliciously repeated to him the insulting rumors concerning my daughter’s conduct and the paternity of her son.
He almost ignored the ties of blood and the rights of nature; I do not know that even paternity weighed with him.
On the subject of his paternity he wrote: You write that I am written down somewhere as a natural son of the deceased king of Prussia; this was mentioned to me long ago.
Paternity is a matter of indifference, only children of the same mother consider one another brothers and sisters.
But if paternity is dubious in monogamous marriage even, it is surely beyond the possibility of determination where polyandry prevails.
As our records demand a name for the father, "Anon" should serve where paternity is doubtful and the real father's name should be acknowledged in every official document in every case where paternity orders are obtained.
Moreover, had Cardinal Roderigo desired to fasten the paternity of Cesare on another, there was ready to his hand Vannozza's actual husband, Giorgio della Croce.
Nepotism had characterized many previous pontificates; open paternity was to characterize his, for he was the first Pope who, in flagrant violation of canon law, acknowledged his children for his own.
The subject of paternity may, if reserved for future treatment, be appropriately given by the father, provided that he and his son are on really intimate terms.
Whether at this time it is best to teach him the facts of paternity is, I think, doubtful.
An illegitimate birth is generally recorded under the name of the mother only, and even when it is given, the truth of any statement as to paternity is always open to grave suspicion.
They are not so easy as his Paternity declares in admitting any temptation, and there are many of them who are very modest and reserved.
But if his Paternity knows of this lack, how surprising that this and other things happen in regard to them, such as that all keep their faces turned toward him who confesses.
In France, indeed, and in the legal codes which follow the French example, it is not legally permitted to inquire into the paternity of an illegitimate child.
Paternity is but a mere incident, it was argued, in man's life: why should maternity be more than a mere incident in woman's life?
