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Notes to Morgan, pp. 216-221.210 “ The Eupatrids settling in the city itself.”211 Ms.: Khlistenes.212 “ The people from the beginning were removed from all affairs.”213 Khleistenes.214 [Aristides] introduced a decree that the administration of the citybe the privilege of all the classes, and that the archons be chosen fromamong all Athenians.”215 doubtful reading.] This passage is seen from the viewpoint of theGreeks.216 gens] crossed out. M s.: family. Cf. Morgan, op. cit., p. 289.217 “As to who these gentiles are, we have set this forth in the first (bookof this) commentary. And as we said there, the entire jus gentiliciumhas fallen into disuse, still it might be useful at this point to treat thismatter afresh.”218 Cicero, Topica, VI, 29. “ Gentiles are those who have the same name.That is not enough. Who have come from free ancestors. That isstill not enough. Whose ancestors have not been slaves. To thissomething is to be added. Who have not lost their civic rights.aThat is perhaps enough. Scaevola the pontiff had nothing to add tothis definition.”a capital diminution (Morgan, op. cit., p. 290).219 Festus, De Significatione Verborum, s.v. gentilis. “ Gentile is appliedto those of the same origin, having the same name.”220 “As among men there are those who are agnates as well as gentiles soit is among words. For as from Aemilius originated the Aemiliani,and the gentiles, so from the name Aemilius the gens of nouns is declined.For from that name which was set forth in the nominativecase as Aemilius came Aemilii, Aemilium, Aemilios, Aemiliorum, andall the remaining words which are related.”221 “What difference is there in the matter if a patrician marries a plebeianor a plebeian a patrician? The children still follow the father.”222 Suetonius, Life of Tiberius, I : “ The patrician gens Claudia ... receiveda portion of the state lands across the Anio as a burial place for itsclients, and below the Capitol as a burial place of its own.”223 Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome, II, 119: “The half-burned(Ms.: semiustrum) corpse of Varus was mutilated by the savage enemy;his head was chopped off and carried to Maroboduus, and fromhim was sent to Caesar, yet it was honored with a burial in the sepulchreof the gens.”224 Cicero, “ So sacred are the graves that it is sinful to inter in themthose not of the gens and its rites; so it was according to our ancestors.Aulus Torquatus so decided in regard to the Popilian gens.”225 Trebatius in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, VII, 12: “A sacellum is asmall place with an altar, dedicated to a god.”Festus. “ Sacella is a roofless place, dedicated to a god.” (s.v.)226 Ms.: performans.407