[299] Iam tanta religio est sepulcrorum, ut extra sacra et gentem inferi fas negent esse; idque apud majores nostros A. Torquatus in gente Popilia judicavit.—De Leg., ii, 22.
[300] Cicero, De Leg., ii, 23.
[301] “There were certain sacred rites (sacra gentilicia) which belonged to a gens, to the observance of which all the members of a gens, as such, were bound, whether they were members by birth, adoption or adrogation. A person was freed from the observance of such sacra, and lost the privileges connected with his gentile rights when he lost his gens.”—Smith’s Dic. Antiq., Gens.
[302] Cicero, Pro Domo, c. 13.
[303] History of Rome, i, 241.
[304] Cicero, De Leg., ii, 23.
[305] Dionysius, ii, 22.
[306] Ib., ii, 21.
[307] Niebuhr’s History of Rome, i, 241.
[308] Bina jugera quod a Romulo primum diuisa [dicebantur] viritim, quae [quod] haeredem sequerentur, haeredium appellarunt.—Varro, De Re Rustica, lib. i, cap. 10.