Altogether Solon's laws concerning women are very strange. He permitted a husband to kill an adulterer in the act; but if anyone carried off a free woman and forced her, he assessed a penalty of 100 Drachmas. If he obtained her favors be persuasion, he was to pay 20 Drachmas, except in the case of those who ply for hire, alluding to harlots; for they come to those who offer them money without concealment. Moreover, he forbade men to sell their sisters and daughters except in the case of unchastity.
Plutarch's Lives: Life of Solon XXIII
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