Cui ego, Certe, inquam; nam in Illyrico hoc amplius, praegnatem saepe, cum venit pariendi tempus, non longe ab opere discedere ibique enixam puerum referre, quem non peperisse, sed invenisse putes; nec non etiam hoc, quas virgines ibi appellant, non numquam annorum viginti, quibus mos eorum non denegavit, ante nuptias ut succumberent quibus vellent et incomitatis ut vagari liceret et filios habere.
It is quite true, I replied; and in Illyricum I have seen something even more remarkable: for it often happens there that a pregnant woman, when her time has come, steps aside a little way from her work, bears her child there, and brings it back so soon that you would say she had not borne it but had found it. They have also another remarkable practice: their custom does not refuse to allow women, often as much as twenty years old (and they call them maidens, too), before marriage to mate with any man they please, to wander around by themselves, and to bear children.
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