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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[144] Valerius Maximus, viii, 3, 3. Appian, _B.C._, iv, 32 ff.
Quintilian, i, 1, 6. [145] Valerius Maximus, viii, 3, 2. [146] Quintilian, ix, 2, 20 and 34. [147] E.g., Pliny _Letters_, i, 5, and iv, 17. [148] E.g., Huschke, pp. 796, 797, 803, 807, 809, 810, 856, 857, 858. Or instances such as that mentioned in Digest, 48, 2, 18, where a sister brings an action to prove her brother's will a forgery. [149] Pliny, _Letters_, vi, 33. [150] Paulus in Dig., 22, 6, 9. [151] Fully treated in Dig., 16, 1, and Paulus, ii, xi. [152] Ulpian in Dig., 16, 1, 2. [153] Aulus Gellius, xvii, 6. St. Augustine, de Civit. Dei, iii, 21: nam tunc, id est inter secundum et postremum bellum Carthaginiense, lata est etiam illa lex Voconis, ne quis heredem feminam faceret, nec unicam filiam. [154] Dio, 56, 10. [155] Aulus Gellius, xx, 1, 23. According to Dio, 56, 10, it was Augustus who in the year 9 A.D. gave women permission to inherit any |
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