Capitolo 51
withdraws it is completely another from that of Ovid and Juvenal. The common people
still holds to the old standards of the morality and the duty. The degeneration of
intelligent society has made here the small progress. The tie of marriage is contained
sacred; his wife and husband, his/her parent and child are had neighbors to each in arm
other in obligations of the affection. The virtues of women are those that
Martinianus records on the stone of his/her wife Sofroniola:[29]
"Purity, the loyalty, affection a sense of the duty, a flexible nature and
whatever quality that God has planted in women."
(Castitas fides earitas pietas obsequium Et quaecumque deus faemenis
inesse praecepit.)
On a stone next to Turin,[30] Valerius wrote in memory of his/her wife the
simple line:
"Pure in heart, modest, of convenient that brings, discreet, noble-prepared, and
held in tall respect."
(Chaste caste decens sapiens the probata of Generous.)
Only one that discordant note is stricken in this choir of encomium. This fierce
invective is of forehead on an altar to Rome:[31] "Here for every time you/he/she has been
puts in writing down the ashamed record of the freedwoman Acte, of
poisoned mind, and untrustworthy, astute, and insensitive. Oh! for a fingernail,
and a hemp rope to strangle her and flaming pitch to burn her/it bad
heart."
A double tribute is paid to a certain Statilia in this naive
inscription:[32] "You who the beautiful wert over measure and truth to thy
husbands, didst digitano twice the obligations of marriage... and he who first it came,
if he had been able to withstand the fates, you/he/she would have prepared this stone to
thee, while me, alas! who have been blessed from thy pure heart and they have been beloved for
thee for sixteen years, here! I have now lost thee." He/she anchors the greatest pedantic individuals
for the truth to the expense of convention two affectionate husbands are that
taken in loan a beautiful couplet composed in memory of of the woman "of tender
you grow old", and then it replaced on the monuments of their wives the more