Nothing is more significant in this respect than the close connection of agriculture with marriage and the foundation of cities during the earliest epoch of culture.

Thus the gods in Italy immediately concerned with marriage are Ceres and (or ?) Tellus (Plutarch, Romul.

22; Servius on Aen.iv.

166; Rossbach, Rom.

Ehe, 257, 301), in Greece Demeter (Plutarch, Conjug.Praec.