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THE ROMAN CALENDAR

Marriage in ancient Rome conubium was a fundamental institution of society and was used by Romans primarily as a tool for interfamilial alliances. The institution of Roman marriage was a practice of marital monogamy : Roman citizens could have only one spouse at a time in marriage but were allowed to divorce and remarry. This form of prescriptively monogamous marriage that co-existed with male resource polygyny [a] in Greco-Roman civilization may have arisen from the relative egalitarianism of democratic and republican city-states. Early Christianity embraced this ideal of monogamous marriage by adding its own teaching of sexual monogamy , and perpetrated it worldwide and became as an essential element in many later Western cultures. Roman marriage had precedents in myth. The abduction of the Sabine Women may reflect the archaic custom of bride abduction. Rome's Sabine neighbours rejected overtures of intermarriage conubium by Romulus and his band of male immigrants. According to Livy , Romulus and his men abducted the Sabine maidens but promised them honorable marriage, in which they would enjoy the benefits of property, citizenship, and children. Marriages helped families to build economic and political bonds and alliances. Matrimonium , the root of the English word matrimony , defined the role of wives as mothers matres who would produce legitimate children , as eventual heirs to their parents' estates.

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Grand Theft Auto IV 's story has two potential endings the player's actions can lead to, but one is vastly preferable to the other. Each ending results in some sort of loss, but the stakes for both are not equal, leading to one ending hitting in a more painful way than the other. Players who know what to expect will likely pick one ending over the other every time, and there are some legitimate reasons for doing so. Grand Theft Auto 4 has a reputation as one of the darker, more downbeat games in the series. It doesn't revel in irreverence and over-the-top setpieces as much as other games in the series. Even the game's art style features more muted colors compared to its vibrant successor.

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January 1 can be a day of regret and reflection — did I really need that fifth glass of bubbly last night? This January ritual of looking forward and backward is fitting for the first day of a month named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings.

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