Cornuti - or not?

[Michael Kerr]

I have been following this thread with interest & although I admit I don't know much about late Roman army but in regards to whether helmets had feathers or horns I remembered looking at a blogger's travel site for my daughter who is travelling to Italy & I stumbled across this page describing an annual festival in a small village regarding the “Cornuti" & how it may have originated with returning Roman soldiers who have suffered infidelity by their wives while they were off fighting & the carrying of horns symbolised infidelity & how it may have Celtic origins & cattle festivals. I shall put link below. It's probably unrelated but maybe of interest to some. I have to wonder though did Roman wives have the right to divorce if their husbands were serving in the army & never returned home in his 15-25 year stint in army & did they have a legal right to remarry? Also could the army have made a distinction with these men in their ranks as soldiers who were divorced by wives was probably more common than assumed? I know technically Roman legionaries were not allowed to be married but during republican times I don't think the army had such rules & what about auxilliaries? Sorry now I am really straying off topic but I am just curious as to the origin of the word Cornuti & the Roman army. If a man returns home to find he has been displaced while he served in the army is liable to sign up for another stint in army as that has been his life & he in turn would be a veteran trooper & maybe they grouped these men together making them a veteran unit. This is not a theory just wondering if term goes back a bit.

http://www.only-apartments.com/news/corn...lity-rome/

Now back to the serious discussion.
Regards
Michael Kerr