Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.36

v2.c20.36

Among the old Germans also the wife was the man's property. According to Tacitus, *Germania* 19, the punishment of the adulteress was left in the hands of the husband and the clan. As is well-known, it was very severe. This standpoint made itself still so strongly felt in later times that, according to Gregory of Tours, a man named Eulalius, who complained to King Gunthram that his wife had left