rapimento

Jan Bremmer has pointed to the Greek term "harpage" (Latin "raptus"), abduction, which Strabo uses systematically.

Bremmer rightly suggest that "harpage" ("raptus") was a technical term in Greek, for we find the same word used in the same sense -- meaning abduction to an eromenos -- n the myths of Chrysippus and Ganymede.

It is also used by Plutarch to denote the Lacedaemonian mode of marriage by abduction.

And in Chalcis, in Euboea, the abdution of the handsome Ganymede by Zeus was said to have occurred in the place known as Harpagion.

According to Strabo, the 'harpage' takes place with varying degrees of ritualised complicity by the young man's friends ('philoi'), to whom the erastes announces his plans.