Note 738 — Chapter XXII · WESTERN COLONIES OF GREECE — IN EPIRUS, ITALY, SICILY, AND GAUL.
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Partheniæ, i. e. children of virgins: the description given by Varro of the Illyrian virgines illustrates this phrase: “Quas virgines ibi appellant, nonnunquam annorum xx, quibus mos eorum non denegavit, ante nuptias ut succumberent quibus vellent, et incomitatis ut vagari liceret, et liberos habere.” (Varro, De Re Rusticâ, ii, 10, 9.)