also Paraphernalia Notes References Roman law and dotata: Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian By Susan Treggiari, pp 96–104, 209–211, 326–342, 541; Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire By Jerome Carcopino describes the dowry and dotata on pages 97 – 100 Valerius Maximus translated by Henry J. Walker Memorable Deeds and Sayings: One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome Horace referred to the wealthy wife's enslavement of the husband as, dotata regit virum conjux - a dowered wife rules her husband (Od iii, 18). The New Comedy of Greece and Rome By Richard L. Hunter, "dotata ('dowered wife') pp 91, 92, 166; Cicero writes of the importance of the dotata and Roman customs in ad Att. XIV.13, XV.20, Pro Caecina c4 & c25 Saint Jerome speaks of the large dowry (megullia dotata) in his Letters 9, 13, 54, 79. External links Ancient weddings Ancient Roman wedding practice as related to marriage in Ireland speaks of the dotata as the dowry and the ancient Roman customs. The female model and the reality of Roman women under the Republic and the Empire by Francesca Cenerini of Università di Bologna, reference to time of the Second Punic War pertaining to uxor dotata (a woman who had a large dowry). Women of the Roman Republic