Note 119
Solon requires three payments per month. By
the Misna, a daily debt was imposed on an idle, vigorous,
young husband; twice a week on a citizen; once on a peasant;
once in thirty days on a camel-driver; once in six months on
a seaman. But the student or doctor was free from tribute;
and no wife, if she received a weekly sustenance, could sue
for a divorce; for one week a vow of abstinence was allowed.
Polygamy divided, without multiplying, the duties of the
husband, (Selden, Uxor Ebraica, l. iii. c 6, in his works,
vol ii. p. 717 - 720.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44