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In ancient Rome, a gens (/ɡɛns/ or /dʒɛnz/, Latin: [gẽːs]; pl.: gentes [ˈgɛnteːs]) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same nomen gentilicium...

Look up gens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals...

This is a list of Roman nomina. The nomen identified all free Roman citizens as members of individual gentes, originally families sharing a single nomen...

an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district...

the 31 smaller rural tribes. Many rural tribes derive from prominent Roman gentes, or family names, such as Cornelia or Fabia. Aemilia Aniensis Arniensis...

Quinctii, Geganii, Curiatii and Cloelii were of Alban descent. According to Roman mythology, Ascanius, son of Trojan War hero Aeneas, founded the Alban tribe...

where it issues from the Sabine hills. The city offers a wide view over the Roman Campagna. Gaius Julius Solinus cites Cato the Elder's lost Origines for...

a city allied to Rome. As such, it furnished contingents to the Roman army, and Roman exiles were permitted to live at Praeneste, which grew prosperous...

patriarch, called a pater (the Latin word for "father"). When the early Roman gentes were aggregating to form a common community, the patres from the leading...

prefect Aëtius of Amida, 6th-century physician and medical writer List of Roman gentes Family in ancient Rome Ateia gens Regenberg, W. (1978). Mitteilungen...

select their own members in 104 BCE. Afterwards candidates from wealthy Roman gentes would be elected. At some point in the third century BC, several priesthoods...

Republic to imperial times. The Aemilii were almost certainly one of the gentes maiores, the most important of the patrician families. Their name was associated...

were known as the gentes maiores, the greatest or perhaps the most noble houses. The other patrician families were called the gentes minores. Whether this...

lived at Constantinople during the 4th century. List of Roman gentes Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, pp. 5, 6 ("Octavia...

Tusculum is a ruined Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious...

Republic to claim a divine origin for the most distinguished of the Roman gentes, it was contended that Iulus, the mythical ancestor of the race, was...

fourth-century grammarian and teacher of rhetoric. List of Roman gentes Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. II, p. 714 ("Lamia", no...

child of Didius Julianus. List of Roman gentes Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage, p. 308. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I...

name perhaps a descendant of the consul Marcus Ulpius Leurus. List of Roman gentes The latest revision of the Fasti Ostienses, by Ladislav Vidman, places...

were probably numbered amongst the gentes maiores, the greatest of the patrician families. As with many patrician gentes, the Manlii seem to have acquired...