| Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1743 - 324 pages
...fevera illic matrimonia! nec ullam morum partem magis laudaveris. nam prope foli barbarorum fiagulis uxoribus contenti funt, exceptis admodum paucis, qui non libidine, fed ob nobilitatem plunmis nuptiis ambiuntur. Dotem non uxor marito, fed uxori maritus oífert. Interfant parentes & propinqui,... | |
| Samuel Squire - Anglo-Saxons - 1753 - 450 pages
...be bound to anfwer for the truth of this general afiertion of my author] fingulis uxoribus content! funt; exceptis admodum paucis, qui non libidine, fed ob nobilitatem, plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur—and he has elfewhere told us, that there were pauciflima in tarn numerofa gente adulteria.... | |
| Gilbert Stuart - Europe - 1778 - 468 pages
...nee ullam morum partem * magis laudaveris ; nam prope foli barbarorum fingulis uxori* bus content! funt, exceptis admodum paucis, qui non libidine, * fed ob nobilitatem, plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur. When poly* gamy was in that country fo little practHed, we may be cer' tain, the purchqfing -wives... | |
| Cornelius Tacitus - Presses, Issues of - 1790 - 368 pages
...matrimonia : nec ullam morum partem magis laudaveris : nam prope foli barbarorum fingulis uxoribus contend funt, exceptis admodum paucis, qui non libidine, fed ob nobilitatem plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur. Dotem non uxor marito, fed uxori maritus offert. Interfunt parentes & propinqui, ac munera probant... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...are few • examples * Prope foil barbarorum fmguKs uxoribus conlenti furu. Dr mtrrib. Germanorum. t Exceptis admodum paucis, qui non libidine, fed ob nobilitatem, plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur. Ibid. \ See Fredregarius' chronicle of the year 628. (i Severa matritnonia nemo illic viiia ridet,... | |
| Jacob Grimm - Law - 1854 - 1016 pages
...deutfcher fitte und nur von fürften kennt das alterthum beifpiele: nam prope l'oli barbarorum flngulis uxoribus contenti funt, exceptis admodum paucis, qui...libidine fed ob nobilitatem plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur. Der beiden weiber Ariovißs gedenkt Jul. Caefar l, 53. In Skandinavien *j bieten fich mehr fälle dar:... | |
| Jacob Grimm - Germanic philology - 1899 - 726 pages
...lagern wibe.] und nur von fürften kennt das alterthum beifpiele: nam prope foli barbarorum fingulis uxoribus contenti funt, exceptis admodum paucis, qui...libidine fed ob nobilitatem plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur. Der beiden weiber Ariovifts gedenkt Jul. Caefar l, 53. [Chlothar heirathet zwei fchweftern, Aregundis... | |
| Gilbert Stuart - Philosophy - 1995 - 484 pages
...• of a fuperior caft, the magiftrate mail put him ' to death.' Code ofGtntoo Laws, ch. 19. [14] ' Singulis uxoribus contenti funt, exceptis • admodum paucis, qui non libidine, fed ob nobi' litatem, plurimis nuptiis ambiuntur.' " They " are contented with a fingle wife, a very few ex"... | |
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