A Short History of Women's Rights eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 260 pages of information about A Short History of Women's Rights.

A Short History of Women's Rights eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 260 pages of information about A Short History of Women's Rights.

[90] Paulus, ii, xxvi.

[91] Juvenal, x. 317; quosdam moechos et mugilis intrat.  Cf.  Catullus, 15, 19.

[92] See, e.g., Capitolinus, Anton. Pius, 3.  Spartianus, Sept.  Severus, 18, Pliny, Panegyricus, 83:  multis illustribus dedecori fuit aut inconsultius uxor assumpta aut retenta patientius, etc.

[93] Pliny, Letters, vi, 31.

[94] Paulus, ii, xxvi, 15.

[95] Valerius Maximus, ii, 1, 6.

[96] Aulus Gellius, xvii, 21, 44.  Valerius Maximus, ii, 1, 4.  Plutarch, Roman Questions, 14.

[97] Valerius Maximus, vi, 3, 12.

[98] “If you should catch your wife in adultery, you would put her to death with impunity; she, on her part, would not dare to touch you with her finger; and it is not right that she should”—­Speech of Cato the Censor, quoted by Aulus Gellius, x, 23.

[99] E.g., Marcellus in Dig., 24, 3, 38:  Maevia Titio repudium misit, etc.; ibid., Africanus, 24, 3, 34:  Titia divortium a Seio fecit, etc.  Martial, x, 41:  Mense novo lani veterem, Proculeia, maritum Deseris, atque iubes res sibi habere suas.  Apuleius, Apologia, 547:  utramvis habens culpam mulier, quae aut tam intolerabilis fuit ut repudiaretur aut tam insolens ut repudiaret.

Novellae, 140, 1:  Antiquitus quidem licebat sine periculo tales [i.e., those of incompatible temperament] ab invicem separari secundum communem voluntatem et consensum.

[100] Martial, vi, 7.

[101] Aulus Gellius, x, 15:  Matrimonium flaminis nisi morte dirimi ius non est.

[102] Tacitus, Annals, iv, 16.

[103] Ulpian, vi, 6; id. in Dig., 24, 3, 2.  Pauli fragmentam in Boethii commentario ad Topica, 2, 4, 19.

[104] Paulus in Dig. ii,3, 41.

[105] Ulpian, vi, 13.

[106] Ulpian, vi, 9-17, and vii, 2-3.  Pauli frag, in Boethii comm. ad Top., ii, 4, 19.

[107] Ulpian, xiv:  feminis lex Iulia a morte viri anni tribuit vacationem, a divortio sex mensum; lex autem Papia a morte viri biennii, a repudio anni et sex mensum.

[108] Ulpian in Dig., 25, 3, 1.  Paulus, ii, xxiv, 5.

[109] Ulpian in Dig., 25, 4, 8.

[110] Codex, v, 24, 1.

[111] Codex, vi, 60, 1:  Res, quae ex matris successione fuerint ad filios devolutae, ita sint in parentum potestate, ut fruendi dumtaxat habeant facultatem, dominio videlicet carum ad liberos pertinente.

[112] Neratius in Dig., 26, 1, 18.

[113] Codex, v, 35, 1.

[114] Codex, ii, 12, 18:  alienam suscipere defensionem virile officium est ... filio itaque tuo, si pupillus est, tutorem pete.

[115] Ulpian, Tit. viii, 7_a_.  Paulus, i, 4, 4.

[116] ad Helviam matrem de consol., xiv, 3.

[117] Other instances of women trustees will be found in Apuleius, Apologia 516; Paulus in Dig; iii, 5,23 (24):  avia nepotis sui negotia gessit, etc.; ibid., Marcellus, 46, 3, 48:  Titia cum propter dotem bona mariti possideret, omnia pro domina egit, reditus exegit, etc.

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