ABSTRACT
In the last paper we attempted to describe the part which Roman women took in politics under the Republic. It was only natural that the tendency which made toward social equality between the sexes, and which had given women a share in the management of public affairs, should in course of time carry them into some of the other vocations which had been reserved for men in the earlier period. Their activity in these masculine fields undoubtedly began under the Republic, but we have scanty means of establishing the fact. Our information on this point comes almost entirely from epitaphs, and the great majority of these are subsequent to republican times.
