afrania

Updated: July 10, 2026

We hear also of a certain Gaia Afrania, wife of a Senator; she always conducted her case herself before the supreme judge, "not because there was any lack of lawyers," adds her respectable and scandalised historian, "but because she had more than enough of impudence."

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.