[4] Persarum: the practice of incestuous marriages among the Persian Magi is mentioned by Strabo 15. p. 735 “τούτοις δὲ καὶ μητράσι συνέρχεσθαι πάτριον νενόμισται” ; cf. also Eur. Andr. 173ff. and scholia; Tert. Apol. p. 10 Persas cum suis matribus misceri Ctesias refert.
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Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
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