wife debate

Question 1

Caecina Severus’ preposition

Answer 1

Severus proposed no governor should be able to take his wife as a female entourage stimulates extravagance in peace time and timidity in war. Frail but also begin to order military’s affairs about ordering commanders about.
Extortion charges are mainly against their wives. Rulers at home, courts now in the army.

Question 2

Whose did Severus’s argument please

Answer 2

Pleased only a few people.

Question 3

Marcus Valerius Messala Messalinus response

Answer 3

when men return from their labours they are surely entitled to relax with their wives.
If a woman behaves it is her husbands fault.
It would mean abandoning and exposing the weaker sec to its own temptations and to masculine sensuality, marriages would not survive

Question 4

Drusus’ argument

Answer 4

the divine Augustus frequently travelled with his wife.
He himself would go places but not always happily if severed from his beloved wife and all their children
- Severus’ proposal was evaded.