In August my wife does not know you


In August, my wife does not know you is a popular proverb with lay background, spread in many areas of Italy and Europe and above all very ancient. In this form appears the most popular contemporary of a long series of ancient proverbs that advised husbands not to stray and not to get tired too much in the hot period.

Already, Hesiodo remembers that when the summer was blowing the wives were all hot and their husbands were speechless and advised how to remedy Biblical wine and a sheltered place in the shadows. Even the poet Alceo confirmed that women in August are filled with desire while men show little vigor. Notemodify wikitesto Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto

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