 | Juvenal - 1813 - 396 σελίδες
...Benefieiis, c. xvi. " Does " any body how bhtsh at a divorce, since certain illustrious and no," ble women compute their years, not by the number of consuls,...number of husbands they have had?" .'* Tertullian says, Apo1. c. vi. '.'Divorce was now looked upon as " one fruit of marriage." When Martial is satirizing... | |
 | Henry Virtue Tebbs - 1822 - 288 σελίδες
...the liberty. Seneca's reflection upon them is very severe. He declares, they calculated their age, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of husbands they had had.* The most ordinary causes of Divorce were, barrenness, age, disease, madness, and banishment.... | |
 | Henry Virtue Tebbs - 1822 - 286 σελίδες
...the liberty. Seneca's reflection upon them is very severe. He declares, they calculated their age, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of husbands they had had.* The most ordinary causes of Divorce were, barrenness, age, disease, madness, and banishment.... | |
 | 1887 - 890 σελίδες
...Seneca had asked : — " Does anybody now blush at a divorce, since certain illustrious and noble names compute their years, not by the number of Consuls, but by the number of husbands they have had ?" and Tertullian's famous epigram epitomized the whole situation : — " Divorce was now looked upon... | |
 | 1855 - 660 σελίδες
...had become low ; the marriage tie lost its binding force ; and women of rank, says Seneca, counted years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands. The evils of slavery affected every class of society ; but especially did it tend to... | |
 | Paul (st.) - 1874 - 468 σελίδες
...part ic 6. (Seneca could say) " was now ashamed of divorce ; and illustrious and noble ladies counted their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands." Hence also the bitter sarcasm of Juvenal : Sic fiunt octo mariti Quinquc per autumnos.... | |
 | Johann Gerhard W. Uhlhorn - 1879 - 646 σελίδες
...almost immediate from the nursery to married life), and of becoming free. " There are women who count their years not by the number of Consuls, but by the number of their husbands," 21 says Seneca. " They allow themselves to be divorced," mocks Juvenal, "before the... | |
 | Gerhard Uhlhorn - 1879 - 524 σελίδες
...almost immediate from the nursery to married life), and of becoming free. " There are women who count their years not by the number of Consuls, but by the number of their husbands," 21 says Seneca. " They allow themselves to be divorced," mocks Juvenal, "before the... | |
 | Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing - 1887 - 228 σελίδες
...world was indeed conquered, and its treasures were enjoyed. " There are women," says Seneca, "who count their years not by the number of Consuls, but by the number of their husbands." He ventures to affirm that marriage is contracted merely for the sake of giving a... | |
 | 1892 - 780 σελίδες
...makes the astounding declaration that there are " distinguished women of noble families" who "reckon their years not by the number of consuls, but by the number of husbands." Of course the wife sank under such circumstances. She became unworthy of notice. The lordly Roman,... | |
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Is there any woman that blushes at divorce now that certain illustrious and noble ladies reckon their years, not by the number of consuls, but by the number of their husbands... 
