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...establish more comfortably the children born of a previous marriage after the wife has died, the husband is able.

III.
The effect of which matter was once so great that the Treasury itself provided dowries for girls suffering from shameful poverty, so that they might not marry undowered.

IV.
That this is clearly established by the example of the daughters of Scipio, Curius, and Cincinnatus.

V.
Criticizing the law of the Decemvirs and the wicked custom of the Egyptians, who thought that if they had received a dowry from their wives, they should be surrendered to them as slaves.

VI.
But we learn to understand from the very notation of the word, these subtleties trivial or overly fine distinctions have not only been refuted by the authority of Pomponius and our other predecessors, but also that they possessed no probability.

VII.
Since this word is equivocal, it is transferred to various things: the dowries of the soul, of the body, and of fortune;

Thus