Laws belonging to Adulteries.
HE, that deflowrs a Free-woman by force, shall be Fin'd an hundred Drachms.
He, who in the same manner violates a young Maiden's Chastity, shall be Fin'd a thousand Drachms▪
Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...
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- Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...
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- Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747.
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- Oxford :: Printed ... for Abel Swall ...,
- 1697.
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He, that catches an Adulterer in the Fact, may impose any Arbitrary punishment.
If any one is injuriously clapt up on suspicion of Adultery, He shall make his complaint by Appeal to the Thesmothetae, which if they find justifiable, He shall be acquitted, and his Sureties discharg'd from their Bail; but in case he be brought in Guilty, the Judges shall lay on him, death only excepted, what punishments they will, and he be forc'd to get Friends to pass their word for his future Chastity.
If any one commit a Rape, he shall be amerc'd twice as much as is usual otherwise.
No Husband shall have to do with his Wife any more after she hath defil'd his Bed, and her Gallant convicted; and, if he does not put her away, he shall be esteem'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; hereupon she is prohibited coming to publick Temples, where if she does but enter, she is liable to any Penalty, except Death.
No Adulteress shall be permitted to adorn her self, she, that doth, shall have her Garments cut or torn off her back by any that meets her, and likewise be beaten, tho' not so as to be kill'd, or disabled.
No Woman of innocent conversation shall appear abroad in an im∣modest or affected Garb, she, that doth, shall forfeit a thousand Drachms.
Women are forbid to travel with above three Gowns, or more meat and drink than they can purchase for an Obolus, neither shall they car∣ry with them above an Hand-basket, or go out any where by nigh•• but in a Chariot, with a Lamp or Torch carry'd before it.