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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Valerius Maximus, vi, 3, 9. For this he was not even blamed, but rather received praise for the excellent example.

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Aulus Gellius, x, 23. A woman in the Menaechmi of Plautus, iv, 6, 1, complains justly of this double standard of morality:

Nam si vir scortum duxit clam uxorem suam,

Id si rescivit uxor, impune est viro.

Uxor viro si clam domo egressa est foras,

Viro fit causa, exigitur matrimonio.

Utinam lex esset cadem quae uxori est viro!