Sentences with phrase «roman matron»

Marcella was the leading lady in the story Don Quixote and was also given to the famous Saint Marcella, the Roman matron of strength.

During the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius in the middle of the second century, an unnamed Roman matron furtively became a Christian and not only left her old way of life behind but invited her husband to do the same.

The depictions of Augustus himself, as the model pater familias, and various imperial women, such as his wife Livia, sister Octavia, or niece Antonia Augusta, as ideal Roman matrons, were particularly central in this respect.

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Finally, the spectacle, often referred to, of Roman hostesses who «walk about like honourable matrons or ride on mules and following them even in high noonday, come the most prominent of cardinals and priests».