02-29-2008, 04:56 AM
What's paradoxical? The idea was not to reinstate a nonexistant major punishment for adultery, but to make a dent on adultery which was much less of a case in the earlier republic. By all measures Augustus' programme worked, in terms of renewed sense of severity and incorruptibility.
Multi viri et feminae philosophiam antiquam conservant.
James S.
James S.