Seeing the Nymphs Naked?

[Sean Manning]

or the weird one where a husband praises his wife for working wool.

What's weird about that? Spinning wool was a stereotypically female task in the Roman world, it would be like a husband now complimenting his wife by saying she was a good cook (and deservedly getting a slap if that were the best he could come up with).

An awful lot of writing on Roman wives cites the same half dozen inscriptions about women weaving. The trouble is that such inscriptions are very rare before 300 CE, and the literary evidence is not so good. My reading in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum did not turn up a lot of parallels ...