[388] Censum enim instituit, rem saluberrimam tanto futuro imperio: ex quo belli pacisque munia non viritim, ut ante, sed pro habitu pecuniarum fierent.—Livy, i, 42.
[389] Dionysius, iv, 15.
[390] Dionysius, iv, 14.
[391] History of Rome, l. c., Scribner’s ed., i, 136.
[392] Dionysius, iv, 15; Niebuhr has furnished the names of sixteen country townships, as follows: Aemilian, Camilian, Cluentian, Cornelian, Fabian, Galerian, Horatian, Lemonian, Menenian, Paperian, Romilian, Sergian, Veturnian, Claudian.—Hist. of Rome, i, 320, note.
[393] Rawlinson’s Herodotus, i, 173.
[394] If a Seneca-Iroquois man marries a foreign woman their children are aliens; but if a Seneca-Iroquois woman marries an alien, or an Onondaga, their children are Iroquois of the Seneca tribe; and of the gens and phratry of their mother. The woman confers her nationality and her gens upon her children, whoever may be their father.
[395] Description of Ancient Italy, i, 153; citing Lanzi, ii, 314.
[396] History of Greece, Scribner & Armstrong’s ed., Ward’s Trans., i, 94, note. The Etiocretes, of whom Minos was the hero, were doubtless Pelasgians. They occupied the east end of the Island of Crete. Sarpedon, a brother of Minos, led the emigrants to Lycia where they displaced the Solymi, a Semitic tribe probably; but the Lycians had become Hellenized, like many other Pelasgian tribes, before the time of Herodotus, a circumstance quite material in consequence of the derivation of the Grecian and Pelasgian tribes from a common original stock. In the time of Herodotus the Lycians were as far advanced in the arts of life as the European Greeks (Curtius, i, 93; Grote, i, 224). It seems probable that descent in the female line was derived from their Pelasgian ancestors.
[397] Das Mutterrecht, Stuttgart, 1861.