"Marriage more shameful than adultery"

[Crispvs]

If you take the meaning of the word 'respectable' in its literal sense: able to be respected, it makes sense. One would naturally accord respect to someone on a higher stratum of society but not someone on a lower stratum, even if one treated them politely. Being polite and being respectful are not necessarily the same thing. Polititians and other high status members of society were worthy of respect, but slaves, by their very definition, were not (except perhaps by lower grade slaves).

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