[170] Dom. 13. 35: “Ita perturbatis sacris, contaminatis gentibus, et quam deseruisti et quam poluisti.”
[171] Sall. Iug. 95. 3; Livy iii. 27. 1; 33. 9; vi. 11. 2; Gell. x. 20. 5; cf. ix. 2. 11.
[172] L. L. viii. 4: “Ut in hominibus quaedam sunt agnationes ac gentilitates, sic in verbis.”
[173] In Lib. Praen. 3.
[174] It will suffice to quote Gaius iii. 17: “Si nullus agnatus sit, eadem lex XII Tabularum gentiles ad hereditatem vocat”; cf. Cic. Verr. i. 45. 115: “Lege hereditas ad gentem Minuciam veniebat.” The Minucian gens was plebeian. Its right to the inheritance in question rested on this law of the Twelve Tables. For the gentile right of tutelage, see the so-called Laudatio Turiae, 15, 22 (CIL. vi. 1527; Girard, Textes, 778).
[175] Cf. p. 20; see also Auct. Inc. De Diff. 527 (Keil): “Gens seriem maiorum explicat.”
[176] E.g. “Family will take a person everywhere”; C. D. Warner, quoted by the Standard Dictionary, s. v.
[177] Mommsen’s theory of the gens—a development from Niebuhr’s—is criticized in Pol. Sci. Quart. xxii (1907). 668 f. The distinction between patrician gentes and plebeian stirpes, on which he especially relies, is there shown to be groundless.
[178] Gell. xv. 27. 2.
[179] II. 8. 4.