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receiving from every one in turn a gift. The Augilae, 

 like the Nasamones a Cyrenaic tribe, and the Balearic 

 Islanders had the same wedding custom. 1 The 

 Auseans about Lake Tritonis were said not to marry 

 but to have intercourse like cattle. In regard to the 

 children Herodotus is obscure ; but we gather that 

 they were at a certain age brought before an assembly 

 of the adult men and there one or other of the men 

 was formally recognised as the father. 2 The women 

 of the Gindanes wore leathern anklets, one, it was said, 

 for every man with whom she had had intercourse ; 

 and the more she had the higher she was esteemed, 

 as having been loved by a greater number of men. 3 

 Strabo following Artemidorus reports that among the 

 Troglodytse, a nomadic tribe near the east coast of 

 Africa, the women and children, except those of the 

 chiefs, were held in common ; the penalty for inter- 

 course with a chiefs wife was a sheep. 4 



Julius Csesar attributes to the Britons a species of 

 marriage which appears to be a combination of 

 polyandry and polygyny. Every ten or twelve men, 

 he says, had wives in common. Usually such men 

 were brothers or fathers and sons. But the children 

 born of these unions were reckoned to the husband 

 who first married the mother as a virgin. 5 This 

 passage has been the subject of discussions into which 

 we need not enter. The essential thing for our pur- 

 pose is that the sexual relations of the women were 

 such that the actual paternity of any of their children 



1 Pomponius Mela, i. 8 ; Diodorus Sic. v. i. 



2 Herod, iv. 180. A similar account is -given by Mela (i. 8) of 

 the Gararaantae. 



3 Id. 176. 4 Strabo, xvi. 4, 17. 

 6 Csesar, De Bell. Gall, v. 14. Cf. D on Cassius, xvi f 12, 



