[576] Cases of Messana, Syracuse, etc.
[577] Case of Carthage.
[578] Livy II 23 etc.
[579] Referred to in Iwan Müller’s Handbuch IV ii 2, ed 3 pp 533 foll, article by H Blümner.
[580] That the household as a vigorous unit outlived the gens is I think clear. I guess that this was because production for the supply of life-needs was more closely correlated with the former. Labour was more easily divorced from the clan-system than property was.
[581] Cic Cato mai § 56, Liv III 26, Dionys X 8, 17, Plin NH XVIII 20, Valer Max IV 7. The discrepancies in the versions do not concern us here.
[582] Liv III 13 §§ 8-10, Dionys X 8.
[583] Liv III 27 § 1.
[584] Liv X 36 § 17, Dionys VI 3, etc.
[585] Liv II 22 §§ 5-7.