A Short History of Women's Rights - From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference - to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With - Additions. by Eugene A. Hecker
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[93] Pliny, _Letters_, vi, 31.
[94] Paulus, ii, xxvi, 15. [95] Valerius Maximus, ii, 1, 6. [96] Aulus Gellius, xvii, 21, 44. Valerius Maximus, ii, 1, 4. Plutarch, _Roman Questions_, 14. [97] Valerius Maximus, vi, 3, 12. [98] "If you should catch your wife in adultery, you would put her to death with impunity; she, on her part, would not dare to touch you with her finger; and it is not right that she should"--Speech of Cato the Censor, quoted by Aulus Gellius, x, 23. [99] E.g., Marcellus in Dig., 24, 3, 38: Maevia Titio repudium misit, etc.; ibid., Africanus, 24, 3, 34: Titia divortium a Seio fecit, etc. Martial, x, 41: Mense novo lani veterem, Proculeia, maritum Deseris, atque iubes res sibi habere suas. Apuleius, _Apologia_, 547: utramvis habens culpam mulier, quae aut tam intolerabilis fuit ut repudiaretur aut tam insolens ut repudiaret. _Novellae_, 140, 1: Antiquitus quidem licebat sine periculo tales [i.e., those of incompatible temperament] ab invicem separari secundum communem voluntatem et consensum. [100] Martial, vi, 7. [101] Aulus Gellius, x, 15: Matrimonium flaminis nisi morte dirimi ius |
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