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

[5]

The power of the father was called potestas; that of the husband, manus.

[6]

Aulus Gellius, x, 23. Cf. Suetonius, Tiberius, 35.

[7]

Gaius, i, 144.