Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Illyria” in book 1, chapter 196, section 1 of Herodotus, The Histories:
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This is the equipment of their persons. I will now speak of their established customs. The wisest of these, in our judgment, is one which I have learned by inquiry is also a custom of the Eneti in Illyria . It is this: once a year in every village all the maidens as they attained marriageable age were collected and brought together into one place, with a crowd of men standing around.
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