The Christian writer Tertullian, writing 200-240 A.D., in On the Veiling of Virgins ch.11 p.34 mentions that even barbarians did not dispatch to their businesses girls until they were 12, and boys until they were 14 years old.
Tertullian, akiandika mwaka 200-240 BK, anasema kuwa hata washenzi "hawakuwapeleka kwenye biashara zao" wasichana hadi walipofikisha miaka 12, na wavulana hadi walipokuwa na miaka 14. Mandhari hapa ni uchumba katika ndoa, hata kama mtu anaweza kubisha kuwa hii ni kukamilisha ndoa kwa tendo la unyumba.