Note 81 — Chapter I · THE POPULUS AND ITS EARLIEST POLITICAL DIVISIONS
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Mommsen, too, supposes that genera here means gentes but is used so as to include also the plebeian stirpes; nevertheless he knows that the voting in the curiate assembly was by heads rather than by gentes; Röm. Staatsr. iii. 9, n. 2; 90, n. 5.