• INTERMARRIAGE

by circumlocution with connubium est; connubia sunt aliquibus. They forbad, by a cruel law, the intermarriage of plebeians and patricians, connubia ut ne plebi et patribus essent, inhumanissima lege sanxerunt (Cic.): Canuleius proposed a law to saeiction the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians, de connubio patrum et plebis Canuleius rogationem promulgavit (Liv.): since no neighboring slates would allow of intermarriages with them, quippe quibus cum finitimis connubia non essent: they forbad intermarriages between the other states, ceteris populis connubia ademerunt. (☞ This was the jus connubii.) .