[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v2.c20.36 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.36 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.36 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.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 - [Previous: v2.c20.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.35) - [Next: v2.c20.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.37) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.36) · Pramāṇa