Women and economic evolution: or, The effects of industrial changes upon the status of women

by Theresa Schmid McMahon

[15] Sayce, Babylonians and Assyrians.

[16] Fisher, The Beginnings of Christianity, p. 199.

[17] Mommsen, History of Rome, II, p. 484.

[18] Mommsen, History of Rome, I, p. 91.

“The grown up son might establish a separate household or, as the Romans expressed it, maintain his own cattle (perculium) assigned to him by his father; but in law all that the son acquired, whether by his own labour or by gift from a stranger, whether in his father’s household or in his own, remained the father’s property.”

[19] Mommsen, History of Rome, I, p. 93.

[20] Mommsen, History of Rome, II, p. 484-5.

[21] Mommsen, History of Rome, I, p. 89.

[22] Durny, History of Rome, I. Sec. 1, pp. 54-55.

[23] Guizot, History of Civilization, I, pp. 92-93.