Tertullian Release Date: 01 June 2004 Format: Paperback Pages: 48 Category: Ancient Publisher: Kessinger Publishing ISBN: 9781419104701 ISBN-10: 1419104705
If I must touch on their nuptial duties, there is Afterenda whose appointed function is to see to the offering of the dower; but fie on you you have your Mutunus(2) and Tutunus and Pertunda(3) and Subigus and the goddess Prema and likewise Perfica.(4) O spare yourselves, ye impudent gods No one is present at the secret struggles of married life. Those very few persons who have a wish that way, go away and blush for very shame in the midst of their joy.