Volume 1

History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl.

  • Christoph Meiners
Date:
1808
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Credit: History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ’timeSj for a considerable perlocl after thelr interment. Solon not only forbade these commonly feigned and barbarous ex})res- sions of female grief, but likewise the frequent visits paid to the graves and mo- numents of stränge ])ersons; because, at Athens, as throu; lout all the East, they furnished pretext; and opportunities for il- licit intrigues. The Athenian legislator, indeed, deprived his fellow-citizens of the povver they had previously possessed to seli their childrcn and their sisters; but he allowed fathers, brothers, and guar- dians, this inhuman right, if their daugh- ters, sisters, and wards, had been guilty of an indiscretion and lost their inno- cence.* Solon likewise endeavoured to retrench the ccstly provision rnade urr fe-» males at their marriage; but this good In- tention was frustrated by the too-deeply rooted Oriental practice of carrying, with great parade, wearing-apparel, Ornaments, and monej^, to the house of the bride- groom. Dowries were not forbidden, but ratheir encouraged by Solon; so that, at Athens, as at Rome, there were richly portioned females and opulent heiresses. * Petit Leg. Attic. p. 159. t Jiid. p. 4.j0, 4^1,
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