ABSTRACT
Fearful rites alone bad the power to draw together the father and son who had been members of two different stocks and were endowed with virtues of different nature. Agnatic infeudation was not unlike triumphant annexation. At first, however, no victory could be won and no battle fought to a finish within the domain of the family and the city. It was in the marches that martial law came into being by which alone substantial increments of prestige could be won.
