 Emperor Justinian continued the use of the statute to prosecute rape during the sixth century in the Eastern Roman Empire.By late antiquity, the general term "raptus" had referred to abduction, elopement, robbery, or rape in its modern meaning.Confusion over the term led ecclesiastical commentators on the law to differentiate it into "raptus seductionis" (elopement without parental consent) and "raptus violentiae" (ravishment).