[Footnote 117: Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae, xviii. 6)
gives a ridiculous definition of Aelius Melissus, Matrona,
quae semel materfamilias quae saepius peperit, as porcetra
and scropha in the sow kind. He then adds the genuine
meaning, quae in matrimonium vel in manum convenerat.]