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first and essential condition for the constitution of a Roman gens
was that its members should have had a common male ancestor who had
never been under servitude.57 In fact, the ingenui or gentiles were
supposed to trace their origin to pure Patricians, whose blood had
never been mixed with that of slaves, nor even with that of those
who had been enfranchised. That was, strictly speaking, the meaning
of the Roman gens.? But we know that besides the ingenui or the
gentiles there were attached to the gens some satellites, known by
the name of clients, and their descendants; and also the persons
who had been enfranchised, and their descendants: all the members
of the gens being united by the legal tie of agnatio,69 a
fictitious relationship very important in its legal consequences.
If now we examine the Arabian Akila we see that it is similar to
the Roman gens in more than one respect. The Akila was composed,
first, of people who, both themselves and their ancestry, had never
been under servitude, and who all traced their origin to a common
male ancestor; second, of persons who had been enfranchised by the
Akila and their descendants, and, lastly, of persons who, either on
account of their weakness or other reasons, placed themselves under
the protection of the Akila. These latter were called Moustanas,
namely, clients.60 On the other hand, all the members of the Akila
were agnates with each other, having the same privileges and rights
as their Roman brethren.1 In the early days both of Greece and
Rome, relationship was interwoven with the worship of the same
domestic deities. Plato tells us02 that "relationship is the
community of the domestic gods" auryiveta 6ntfviov gsfav x,otvuvia.
It was the worship of the same divinities, having the same
sanctuary, and partaking of th...
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