This, however, does not seem to have been thought a very serious difficulty in the way of the arrangement.

Pompey's wife was put away, and the wife of another man taken in her place.

Such a deed was a gross violation not merely of revealed and written law, but of those universal instincts of right and wrong which are implanted indelibly in all human hearts.

It ended, as might have been expected, most disastrously.
Antistia was plunged, of course, into the deepest distress.

Her father had recently lost his life on account of his supposed attachment to Pompey.