Truth Rather to Be Appealed to Than Custom, and Truth Progressive in Its Developments.

Having already undergone the trouble peculiar to my opinion, I will show in Latin also that it behoves our virgins to be veiled from the time that they have passed the turning-point of their age: that this observance is exacted by truth, on which no one can impose prescription—no space of times, no influence of persons, no privilege of regions.

Tertullian

https://ccel.org/ccel/tertullian/virgins/anf04.iii.iv.i.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil#/media/File:A_Coptic_woman_of_the_Poorer_Class._(1918)_-_TIMEA.jpg