Husbands
Social role / institution
Gallic War 6.19 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “Whatever sums of money the husbands have received in the name of dowry from their wives, making an estimate of it, they add the same amount out of their own estates. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Gallic War 6.19
Caesar
Whatever sums of money the husbands have received in the name of dowry from their wives, making an estimate of it, they add the same amount out of their own estates. …
Gallic War 7.26
Caesar
… And they were now preparing to execute this by night, when the matrons suddenly ran out-into the streets, and weeping cast themselves at the feet of their husbands, and requested of them, with every entreaty, that they should not abandon themselves and their common children to the enemy for punishment, because the weakness of their nature and physical powers prevented them from taking to flight. …