# Rings for the finger

Author: Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71428

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Rings+for+the+finger+Kunz&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Somewhat distantly related to the betrothal or wedding rings were those given by lovers to the objects of their affection. Of such a ring the Roman poet Ovid writes, apostrophizing it as “a ring soon destined to encircle the finger of a beauteous girl, a ring having no worth except the love of the giver.” It was to be a gift to the poet’s ladylove Corinna.[334] The ring sent by a fair lady, as a token of love to a handsome soldier, in the “Miles Gloriosus” of Plautus was also of this class.

## Chapters

- [v. 11); this passage, however, does not refer to a nuptial ring, but](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rings-for-the-finger-71428/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rings-for-the-finger-71428/chapters/2/index.md)