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ἐπίκοινον: cf. i. 216. 1 n. for polyandry among the Massagetae. H. here describes, not very clearly, a curious form of groupmarriage. Strabo (783) describes an Arabian tribe where the whole family enjoys wives in common; there also the ῥάβδος is used as the sign of possession (cf. W. Robertson Smith, K. A.2 p. 157 seq., for this ‘Ba'al polyandry’).

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