Artemidorus wrote: “It is good to whip and scourge those only which are under us, except our wife, for it should be a doubt that she hath been naught,…”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of Stripes. · Book 2, encoded section 108 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
It is good to whip and scourge those only which are under us, except our wife, for it should be a doubt that she hath been naught, others bring profit to them which beate them. To be scourged of the gods of the dead, or of our subjects is not good, but the good of them. It is alwayes good to be whipped with rods, or with the hand, and signifyeth profit, but with leather, reedes, or cudgels, is not good.
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