And, of course, he’s clearly in affirmation of these things. “It is also written, regarding the right to kill: ‘If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity;she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery, nor is it the law.’ ” And there’s that double standard that I briefly talked about earlier in Greek law; it was certainly the case in Roman law also. It’s that women did not have this right and privilege to convict their husbands, or at least make the