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Arch&ologi<x, Attica. Lib. q.Cap, 10. l8p
CAP* X-
Qua requiranturin ZJxore'.
^£ HE Qualifications required in a Wise, werethese. First,
(he must be sree, before (hi put her neck in the jeake. For
otherwise theMatnage was counted nvtn* rather then ja-
(x®-, and you might call the Woman (in the words osHefiod)
tfwmviymnlu}—— Jsshewere a stranger, (he muft pay
soundly for it, no lesse then a thousand Js»yjid( to the Citty.
This Law though it were for a time let dotyr.e by ?tricks his
ill example, yet it was brought up againe by tAriftophon. Se-
condly, she must be six and twenty yeares os age. And yec
essristotle even in t> Policy can be very well contented to let
the Woman Marry at eighteen. Out os indulgence to theb L-7-ClJ<
Sex surely: for else he thinks it very unsitting they should
Marry so young: both becsuse e* nit 7wjut zzoyioi ^Mor, &c.
they travcll with a great deale more labour, and labour sor
their travell with a great deale more intemperance; and also
becausehehad observd that in those places where they ufed
to make such hast, lisKCu ^yjKfolm m!u<t7at the Puppies
sor the most part were blind, not so persect, or not so biggc
os ftature as else they would be. Bat then there is * another* Hcrol o^crl
who would be willing to let them Marry a yeare or two sop;
ner then he,
*H Ti-ns »W^aiW«' o &Ufiril
And a another fooner yet (is I do not mistake) a Euris> in mk
'Eni m ij.Snr HAStf, ufcuav ymm» v. i z.
sum ad pubertate^ vemt, tempeftivis tiHpt'ril,
Thirdly, stie muft be but one , and no more according to
b Athtn&us; and yet about Socrates his time, by reafon of the
fcarcity os men, to make the more haft sor a recruit, they bL. if,
madean Ad for toleration os keeping a Concubine; (whom
they made ufe of only ad couumbe^dnm for the prefect occa*
A a 3 fion)
CAP* X-
Qua requiranturin ZJxore'.
^£ HE Qualifications required in a Wise, werethese. First,
(he must be sree, before (hi put her neck in the jeake. For
otherwise theMatnage was counted nvtn* rather then ja-
(x®-, and you might call the Woman (in the words osHefiod)
tfwmviymnlu}—— Jsshewere a stranger, (he muft pay
soundly for it, no lesse then a thousand Js»yjid( to the Citty.
This Law though it were for a time let dotyr.e by ?tricks his
ill example, yet it was brought up againe by tAriftophon. Se-
condly, she must be six and twenty yeares os age. And yec
essristotle even in t> Policy can be very well contented to let
the Woman Marry at eighteen. Out os indulgence to theb L-7-ClJ<
Sex surely: for else he thinks it very unsitting they should
Marry so young: both becsuse e* nit 7wjut zzoyioi ^Mor, &c.
they travcll with a great deale more labour, and labour sor
their travell with a great deale more intemperance; and also
becausehehad observd that in those places where they ufed
to make such hast, lisKCu ^yjKfolm m!u<t7at the Puppies
sor the most part were blind, not so persect, or not so biggc
os ftature as else they would be. Bat then there is * another* Hcrol o^crl
who would be willing to let them Marry a yeare or two sop;
ner then he,
*H Ti-ns »W^aiW«' o &Ufiril
And a another fooner yet (is I do not mistake) a Euris> in mk
'Eni m ij.Snr HAStf, ufcuav ymm» v. i z.
sum ad pubertate^ vemt, tempeftivis tiHpt'ril,
Thirdly, stie muft be but one , and no more according to
b Athtn&us; and yet about Socrates his time, by reafon of the
fcarcity os men, to make the more haft sor a recruit, they bL. if,
madean Ad for toleration os keeping a Concubine; (whom
they made ufe of only ad couumbe^dnm for the prefect occa*
A a 3 fion)