38/216 And you, noble couple, live happily and apply your vigorous youth to the assiduous task of wedlock. _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. You ask perhaps how that can be. I do not know, I feel it, and am distressed. |