XVIII-THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM. PART 1. The sacred functions of Latin kings in general probably the same as those of the Roman kings, Question of the rule of succession to the Latin kingship, List of Alban kings, List of Roman kings, Latin kingship apparently transmitted in female line to foreign husbands of princesses, Miraculous births of kings explained on this hypothesis, Marriage of princesses to men of inferior rank in Africa, Traces of female descent of kingship in Greece, And in Scandinavia, Reminiscence of such descent in popular tales,Female descent of kingship among the Picts, The Lydians, the Danes, and the Saxons, Traces of female kinship or mother-kin among the Aryans, the Picts, and the Etruscans, Mother-kin may survive in royal families after it has been superseded by father-kin among commoners, The Roman kings plebeians, not patricians, The first consuls at Rome heirs to the throne according to mother-kin, Attempt of Tarquin to change the line of succession from the female to the male line, The hereditary principle compatible with the elective principle in succession to the throne, Combination of the hereditary with the elective principle in succession to the kingship in Africa and Assam.
