A type of clan division that existed in ancient Rome, signified by a persons nomen.
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Examples for "gens "
Examples for "gens "
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 ?
1 The Grecian gens, phratry, and tribe, the Roman gens , curia, and tribe find their analogues in the gens, phratry, and tribe of the American aborigines.
2 The o-uji corresponded in some degree to the Greek (Greek genos) or the Roman gens : the ko-uji were its branches, and subordinate to it.
1 These were worked by the gentes for the benefit of the Mexicans.
2 It had three original gentes , the Wolf, the Turtle, and the Turkey.
3 The confederacy rested upon the tribes ostensibly, but primarily upon common gentes .
4 He shows that the Aztecs were composed of twenty gentes or clans.
5 The Eskimo have a regular system of animal totem marks and corresponding gentes .
6 Furthermore, the only right the gentes claimed in them was a possessory one.
7 This territory was divided among the four gentes of the tribe.
8 This separation of the people into two divisions by gentes created two phratries.
9 We answer, that the Inca tribe were divided into both phratries and gentes .
10 Polygamy is permitted, but the wives must belong to different gentes .
11 These patrician consuls and aediles are, as respects their - gentes - , distributed as follows:-
12 Below is a list of the gentes of each tribe.
13 Key to the Oraibi plan, also showing localization of gentes
14 They were called "patres nunorum gentium," the senators of the inferior gentes .
15 The Deer, Snipe, and Hawk gentes were common to the Senecas, Cayugas, and Onondagas.
16 The growth of the idea of government commenced with the organization into gentes in savagery.
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