It bore several names, Completa (St. Isidore), Initium noctis (St. Columbanus), Prima noctis hora (St. Fructeux).

It bore several names, Completa (St. Isidore), Initium noctis (St. Columbanus), Prima noctis hora (St. Fructeux).

In the time of Valence the Emperor, saith St. Austin, one Archidamus, a Consul of Antioch, offered a hundred pounds of gold to a fair young wife, and besides to set her husband free, who was then sub gravissima custodia, a dark prisoner, pro unius noctis concubitu: but the chaste matron would not accept of it.

Diei brevitas conviviis, noctis longitudo stupris conterebratur. 1420.

Nullus mihi per otium dies exit, partem noctis studiis dedico, non vero somno, sed oculos vigilia fatigatos cadentesque, in operam detineo. 1988.

Media quod noctis ab hora sedisti qua nemo faber, qua nemo sedebat,

Quum subit illius tristissima noctis Imago. 2159.

Ut cum lux noctis affulget, omnium oculos incurrit: sic Antiloquus &c. 4897.

8. Pretium noctis centum sestertia.

They practise polygamy, and the lords have the jus primae noctis, which is considered as conferring great honour.

placidaeve argentea noctis Luna vices revehet; radios pater ipse diei Proferet archetypos; coelestis gaudia lucis Ipso fonte bibes, quae circumfusa beatam Regiam inundabit, nullis cessura tenebris.

] Vitae qui varias vices Rerum perpetuus temperat arbiter, Laeto cedere lumini Noctis tristitiam qui gelidae jubet, Acri sanguine turgidos, Obductosque oculos nubibus humidis Sanari voluit meos; Et me, cuncta beaus cui nocuit dies, Luci reddidit et mihi.

Nunc clamosa juvant nocturnae gaudia mensae, Nunc loca sola placent; frustra te, somne, recumbens, Alme voco, impatiens noctis, metuensque diei.

Per caeca noctis taedia turbidae, Pigrae per horas lucis inutiles, Torpesque, languescisque, curis Solicitus nimis heu!

POPE Heu, noctis prope terminos Orpheus Eurydicen suam Vidit, perdidit, occidit.

Quod postremum videri potest desumptum ex [Greek: knephas], obscuritas, tenebrae: nihil enim aeque solet conciliare somnum, quam caliginosa profundae noctis obscuritas.

In medio, turmas inter provectus ovantes Cernitur Antitheus; reliquis hic altior unus Eminet, et circum vulgus despectat inane: Frons nebulis obscura latet, torvumque furorem Dissimulat, fidae tectus velamine noctis: "Persimilis turri praecelsae, aut montibus altis Antique cedro, nudatae frondis honore.

Sacri tonantis hostis, exsul patriæ Coelestis adsum; Tartari tristem specum Fugiens, et atram noctis æternæ plagam.

" The wide prevalence in all parts of the world of the custom of lending or exchanging wives, or offering wife or daughter to a guest, also bears witness to the utter indifference to chastity, conjugal and maiden; as does the custom known as the jus primae noctis.

So, too, in the cases of jus primae noctis (referred to in the chapter on Indifference to Chastity), where the men not only submitted to an outrage so damnable to our sense of honor, affection, and monopoly, but actually coveted it as a privilege or a religious blessing and paid for it accordingly.

This jus primae noctis was exercised by the priests" (Brinton, M.N.W., 155); that the Waraus give girls to medicine men in return for professional services (Brett, 320); that the Guaranis lend their wives and daughters for a drink (Reich, 435); that among Brazilian tribes the jus primae noctis is often enjoyed by the chief (Journ.

This jus primae noctis was exercised by the priests" (Brinton, M.N.W., 155); that the Waraus give girls to medicine men in return for professional services (Brett, 320); that the Guaranis lend their wives and daughters for a drink (Reich, 435); that among Brazilian tribes the jus primae noctis is often enjoyed by the chief (Journ.

Brazilians: Tribal marks; Tattooing; Lack of brains; Multiplicity of languages; Licentiousness; Jus primae noctis; Women as slaves; Words to express love.

Caribs: Columbus on; Jus primae noctis; Women as drudges.

Jus primae noctis.