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The eternal Italian male
by magistra @ 2008-01-28 - 13:09:14

From Gillian Clark, Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles (Oxford, 1993):

Remaining at home was not recommended for ascetic men (Jerome, letter 125, 11), since their mothers would insist on feeding them properly, and the slave-girls would be a constant temptation.

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