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Excerpt from Livy, Vol. 4: Edited for the Syndics of the University Press The [ex Caulez'a (cc. 1 - 6 we must remember that where wmzéz'um did not exist between two sets of people, full and regular marriage could not be effected between two members of such sets. This, in effect, meant that the children of such a marriage succeeded to the position of the inferior parent only. The marriage was not quite in the modern sense illegal. The children were not what we should call illegitimate, provi ded the parents were free persons. The father held the same position towards them as he would have done if the marriage were an equal one. But the rule that children followed the rank of the father applied only where the father was plebeian. If a patrician married a plebeian woman, he forfeited all patrician rights for the children of such a union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.