A History of Rome to 565 A. D.

part in the life of the household and did not live the restricted and

secluded lives of the women of Athens and the Greek cities of Asia.

Membership in the household was reckoned only through male descent, for daughters when they married passed out of the _manus_ or “power” of the head of their own household into that of the head of the household to which their husbands belong...