id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1580 Women in ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 14931 1379 66 The Greek observer Plutarch indicates that a second wedding among Romans was likely to be a quieter affair, as a widow would still feel the absence of her dead husband, and a divorcée ought to feel shame.[80] But while the circumstances of divorce might be shameful or embarrassing, and remaining married to the same person for life was ideal, there was no general disapproval of remarriage; on the contrary, marriage was considered the right and desirable condition of adult life for both men and women.[81] Cato the Younger, who presented himself as a paragon modeled after his moral namesake, allowed his pregnant wife Marcia to divorce him and marry Hortensius, declining to offer his young daughter to the 60-year-old orator instead. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1580.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1580.txt