[523] DIONYSIUS, II, 30; PLUTARCH, _Lives_, I, 133, 134 (Lycurgus); HERODOTUS, Book VI, 65; RAWLINSON, III, 377; MÜLLER, _Doric Races_, II, 278; SMITH, _Dict. of Ant._, II, 130-38; DARGUN, _op. cit._, 99, 100; MCLENNAN, _op. cit._, I, 44 ff., 12 ff.; LUBBOCK, _op. cit._, 81. [524] "Feriis autem vim cuiquam fleri piaculare est, ideo tunc vitantur nuptiae, in quibus vis fieri virginibus videtur."--MACROBIUS, _Sat._, 1, 15; _cf._ DARGUN, _op. cit._, 100. [525] The _domum deductio_ was the second act in the patrician marriage ceremony of _confarreatio_, and in this case it appears to have been a necessary form. But it was probably also observed, as a nuptial custom, in connection with plebeian free marriages as well as in the _coemptio_: ROSSBACH, _Die römische Ehe_, 92 ff., 116, 145, 155, 328 ff.; _idem_, _Hochzeits- und Ehedenkmäler_, 39-118. _Cf._ MARQUARDT, _Privat-Leben_, I, 38; SMITH, _Dict. of Ant._, II, 142; FUSTEL DE COULANGES, _Ancient City_, 55 ff.; DARGUN, _op. cit._, 100 ff. [526] "Rapi simulatur virgo exgremio matris aut si ea non est, ex proxima necessitudine, cum ad virum trahitur, quod videlicet ea res feliciter Romulo cessit."--FESTUS, _De verb. sig., s. v. Rapi_. [527] CATULLUS, _Carmina_, LXII, 20-24; MARTIN'S translation, 89. See also CATULLUS, LVI and LXI, for other allusions to Roman wedding customs; and compare OVID, _Metamorphoses_, IV, 75-78; VIRGIL, _Eclogues_, VIII, 30, and SERVIUS, _Commentaria, ad hoc loc_. In general, ROSSBACH, _op. cit._, 328 ff., 359; MARQUARDT, _op. cit._, I, 37-55; FRIEDLÄNDER, _Sittengeschichte_, I, 463-66; BOUCHÉ-LECLERCQ, _Institutions romaines_, 468 ff.; BECKER, _Gallus_, 160, 161, 153-81; PLUTARCH, _Lives_, I, 69-73 (Romulus); SMITH, _op. cit._, II, 138 ff., 142 ff.; LETOURNEAU, _op. cit._, 124, 125; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 386; DARGUN, _op. cit._, 100 ff.; MCLENNAN, _op. cit._, I, 13.