Meanings of same gens in English

Marriage between members of the same gens is forbidden, but consanguineal marriages between persons of different gentes are permitted.

Are persons of the same gens buried together, and is the clan distinction obsolete, or did it ever prevail?

A knowledge of the relationships to each other of the members of the same gens is never lost.]

The mothers and their children, as we have seen, were of the same gens, and to them the house belonged.

This cross relationship between persons of the same gens in the different tribes is still preserved and recognized among them in all its original force.

In their relations to each other, as separated parts of the same gens, these common gentes afforded a natural and enduring basis for a confederacy.

While husband and wife belonged to different gentes, the preponderating number in each household would be of the same gens, namely, that of their mothers.