A type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen.
Family based on male descent.
1 The gens , we must remember, was the unit of their social organization.
2 He remained a member of the gens into which he was born.
3 One Athenian gens , the Ioxidae, had for its ancestral plant the asparagus.
4 A German count cannot condescend to learn anything about ces petites gens .
5 You are not recognising an acquaintance amongst that group of jeunes gens ?
6 A 'piquet' of ' gens d'armes', he said, was all that was necessary.
7 The council of the gens is the supreme ruling power in the gens .
8 The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line.
9 The Nomen was put after the Praenomen, and marked the gens .
10 We will begin with the gens , or the lowest division of the tribe.
11 The community being a continuation of the gens , it inherited all its functions.
12 This division would be made by the council of the gens .
13 Each of these gens held and possessed a portion of the original soil.
14 To a stranger the tribe is visible, and not the gens .
15 There is no such thing as privileged classes in a gens .
16 Children, irrespective of sex, belong to the gens of the mother.
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