Note 986 — Chapter XVIII · THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM
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E. Schuyler, Turkistan (London, 1876), i. 42 sq. This and the four following examples of the bride-race have been already cited by J. F. McLennan, Studies in Ancient History (London, 1886), pp. 15 sq., 181-184. He supposes them to be relics of a custom of capturing women from another community.