revealingly as treating a woman the way you treat your female slaves, he calls for prosecution (Spec. 3.69). He treats the money to be paid as a dowry (Spec. 3.70). Josephus requires the money be paid only if the father refuses the marriage (A.J. 4.253), thus also treating it as a fine. There are also provisions for dealing with claims by a husband that the woman he has married was not a virgin, where if his charge proves false he must pay her father a fine and remain married to her