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XVIII.
However, the amount of the dowry must be determined according to the resources of the father and the dignity of the husband.

XIX.
And the divine Plato, urging the advantage of the Republic, very equitably argues that dowries should be constituted equally for equals.

XX.
From which it follows singularly that a modest dowry can in actual fact, in deed practically/in practice, serve in part for the burdens of marriage.

XXI.
Since a dowry is not the price of a marriage, which without a doubt for this reason, in many ways, would be subject to the danger of treachery.

XXII.
For that reason, the advice of Megadorus in Plautus is praised, when he takes to wife the undowered daughter of a poor man: If my