Eden Phillpotts

Evander Eden Phillpotts

Patricians alone enjoyed the privilege, so that many admirable wives were lost to the community and many good men denied the pleasure of exhibiting a husbands virtues. It is not easy for us to imagine a high civilisation, wherein the upper ten alone were permitted this domestic delight; but thus it happened, until came the tribune, Canuleius, who advanced spirit that he was perceived and declared no reason in the nature of things to prevent the marriage of the middle classes. Nay, this innovator went farther, and, greatly daring, claimed that every Roman citizen might become a husband, if it so pleased him.
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