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Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero

CHAPTER XI
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And you, noble couple, live happily and apply your vigorous youth to the assiduous task of wedlock.
Page 149, footnote 2.

_Si quid_, etc.: if a woman act reprehensibly or disgracefully, he punishes her; if she has drunk wine, if she has done something wrong with a stranger, he condemns her.

If you surprise your wife in the act of adultery, you may with impunity kill her without any form of judgment; but if she caught you in adultery, she would not dare touch you, for she has no right.
Page 150, l.11._liberorum_, etc.: in order to have children.
Page 155, l.22._Odi_, etc.: I hate and I love.

You ask perhaps how that can be.

I do not know, I feel it, and am distressed.
Page 155 (bottom).


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