Note 786 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE

Westermarck, op. cit., 528, 529; Glasson, Le mariage civil et le divorce, 152 ff.; Unger, Die Ehe, 60; Plutarch's Lives (London, 1890), Solon, 68. Primitively the Grecian wife had little liberty in this regard; even later it was always difficult to enforce her right of divorce; and repudiation was regarded as a disgrace: Lecky, History of European Morals, II, 287, 289; Letourneau, op. cit., 304.