The English word "rape" derives ultimately from the Latin verb "rapio, rapere, raptus", "to snatch, carry away, abduct" (the words "rapt", "rapture", and "raptor" still have the same meaning). In Roman law, "raptus" or "raptio" meant primarily kidnapping or abduction; the mythological rape of the Sabine women is a form of bride abduction in which sexual violation is a secondary issue. (Before the word "rape" acquired its modern strictly sexual meaning, the verb meant simply to seize something or someone by force; this usage persisted at least into the early 19th century.) The abduction of an unmarried girl from her father's household in some circumstances was a matter of the couple eloping without her father's permission to marry. Rape in the English sense was more often expressed as "stuprum" committed through violence or coercion ("cum vi" or "per vim"). As laws pertaining to violence were codified toward the end of the Republic, "raptus ad stuprum", "abduction for the purpose of committing a sex crime", emerged as a legal distinction. (See further discussion of rape under "The rape of men" and "Rape and the law" below.)