Note 43 — FIRST SECTION.
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So even in the Middle Ages, e. g. at Venice, it was quite usual for the daughters to earn their dowry by selling their bodies, and there, as in France, it was the mothers who acted as procuresses to their daughters with this object. Stephanus, “Apologie d’Herodote”, Vol. I. pp. 46-49. Fr. Jacobs, loco citato, p. 40.