XVIII-THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM. PART 2. Similar combination perhaps in force at Rome, Personal qualities required in kings and chiefs, Succession to the throne determined by a race, Custom of racing for a bride, Contests for a bride other than a race, The Flight of the King (Regifugium) at Rome perhaps a relic of a contest for the kingdom and the hand of a princess, Confirmation of this theory from the practice of killing a human representative of Saturn at the Saturnalia, Violent ends of Roman kings, Death of Romulus on the Nonae Caprotinae (7th July), an old licentious festival like the Saturnalia for the fertilisation of the fig, Violent deaths of other Roman kings, Succession to Latin kingship perhaps decided by single combat, African parallels, Greek and Italian kings may have personated Cronus and Saturn before they personated Zeus and Jupiter.
