[315] Lucian, Adversus Indoctum.
[316] Juvenal, Satt., XVI., 14.
[317] Persius, Satt., III., 77.; cf. V., 189.
[318] Matth., viii., 9; Luke, vii., 8.
[319] Thucydides, II., iv. The other women alluded to are, the wife of Admêtus, who tells Themistocles how he is to proceed in order to conciliate her husband (I., cxxxvi.); Stratonice, the sister whom Perdiccas gives in marriage to Seuthes (II., ci.); and Brauro, the Edonian queen who murders her husband Pittacus (IV., cvii.). The wife and daughter of Hippias the Peisistratid and the sister of Harmodius are mentioned in bk. VI., lv. ff, but they take us back to an earlier period of Greek history than that of which Thucydides treats consecutively; while the names of Helen and Procne, which also occur, belong, of course, to a much remoter past (I., ix., and II., xxix.)
[320] It has even been maintained that the condition of the Roman matron was superior to that of the modern Frenchwoman. (Duruy, Histoire des Romains, V., p. 41.)
[321] Boissier, Religion Romaine, II. p. 200.
[322] Boissier, op. cit., II., pp. 214 ff.
[323] Friedländer, Romische Sittengeschichte, I., pp. 441 ff.
[324] Lucian, De Mercede Conductis, xxvi.; Friedländer, I., p. 447.