re: #172 Cato the Elder

Mahomet was a pedophile.

Actually, I doubt it. I realize this is an article of faith in some circles, but the evidence is fairly scant on the ground.

All his wives but Aisha appear to have been grown women, many widowed, when he married them. She appears to have been a political marriage, and not inappropriately young to marry by the admittedly scanty standards of the early medieval world.