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Origins of the Family - Chapter VI

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Origins of the Family: Chapter VI

Origins of the Family - Chapter VI Frederick Engels Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State VI. The Gens and the State in Rome According to the legendary account of the foundation of Rome, the first settlement was established by a number of Latin gentes [1] (one hundred, says the legend), who were united in a tribe; these were soon joined by a Sabellian tribe, also said to have numbered a hundred gentes, and lastly by a third tribe of mixed elements, again said to have been composed of a hundred gentes. The whole account reveals at the first glance that very little was still pri

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