The historian Theopompus, when entering upon the history of Evagoras, seems to have related many legendary tales respecting the Greek Gentes in Cyprus, and to have represented Agamemnon himself as ultimately migrating to it (Theopompus, Frag.
His family, poor rather than rich, was among the most ancient in Thebes, belonging to those Gentes called Sparti, whose heroic progenitors were said to have sprung from the dragon’s teeth sown by Kadmus.
It must be remembered that to many of these clans he gives the totems [crests] of the Tlingit phratries: then the gentes [clans] of the Stikin tribe are enumerated.
This was especially the case at Athens, where certain reputed gentes for centuries continued to play a prominent part in the religious cult;[122] and the Romans seem to have preserved their gentilicia sacra still in Cicero's time.
Oyendo a los aventureros, a todas estas gentes de extraños países, empieza a considerar con cierto orgullo su condición de emigrante y de pobre.
Whether or not the Athapascans of Hudson's Bay Territory, and the Apaches of New Mexico, who are subdivisions of an original stock, are organized in genteshas not been definitely ascertained.
In like manner the Cayuga-Iroquois have eight gentes in two phratries; but thesegentes are not divided equally between them.
It is seen in the right of the gentes to elect and depose their sachems and chiefs, in the right of the people to be heard in council through orators of their own selection, and in the voluntary system in the military service.
Several of the names of the Crow gentes are unusual, and more suggestive of bands than of gentes.
With respect to the number of gentesin a tribe, the more numerous the people the greater, usually, the number of gentes.
An Onondaga Indian informed the writer that the same mode of burial by gentes now prevailed at the Onondaga and Oneida cemeteries.
A more probable way would be by the admission of alien gentes into phratries needing an increase of number.
The confederacy, therefore, had the gentes for its basis and centre, and stock language for its circumference.
Aztec gentes are fairly necessary to explain the existence of Aztec chiefs.
It is easy to understand how large numbers of persons would have become detached from the gentes of their birth in the unsettled times which preceded and followed the founding of Rome.
It will be noticed that several of the above gentes are the same as among the Ojibwas.
It is not easy to make out distinctly what was the political position of the ancient gentesand phratries, as Solon left them.
The four tribes consisted altogether of gentes and phratries, insomuch that no one could be included in any one of the tribes who was not also a member of some gens and phratry.
The burgesses of the Genteswere indignant at the curtailment of their privileges by the popular reforms of Servius, and were glad to lend themselves to any overthrow of his power.
He distributed all the citizens of the tribes, without any reference to their gentes or phratries, into four classes, according to the amount of their property, which he caused to be assessed and entered in a public schedule.
Capitulo doçe como binieron a çibola gentes de cicuye a ber los christianos y como fue her^{do} de aluarado a ber las uacas.
Thus thegentes often received outsiders, who were not related by blood to the gens; and such people or their descendants could marry within the gens.
When all the gentes of the tribe were present, each had its special position in the circle, and always occupied it.
It will also be noticed that each tribe has a few gentes common to one or both of the other tribes.
It is noteworthy that the Blackfeet, although Algonquins, have this system of subdivision, and it may be that among them the gentes are of comparatively recent date.
But he found it very difficult to induce any of them to admit that the gentes had subdivisions, which were probably the original gentes.
Then the paths of the people separated: some marched on the left, being the peace gentes that could not take life; they subsisted on roots &c.
The ancestors of these gentes were spoken of as birds which descended from an upper world.
This is rendered the more probable by the fact that the Kansa have grouped their gentes in seven phratries, just the number of the degrees in the society.
It is probable that they are the property of a secret order, as they, too, show how some of the gentes descended as birds from the upper world.
The names of the Winnebago gentes and of some members of the tribe have been recorded by the author, who has also learned parts of their traditions.
Metelli Naeuio poetae is simple enough: but when we come to sin illos deserant fortissimos uiros magnum stuprum populo fieri per gentes or dedet Tempestatibus aide meretod we come, to speak frankly, to chaos.
They started the next morning, all the males, and even females that were without young; and they were many, those who were waiting for males of other gentes to come and marry them.
At the same time a similar ceremony was performed by the aged Paⁿɥka man for the gentes on the right side of the tribal circle.
And while the powers of the Fire and Water are enemies, one is surprised to observe that in the war gens of the Omaha as well as in the two war gentes of the Kansa, there is the sacred clam shell as well as the war pipe!
Does the abode of the disembodied spirit differ in the gentesaccording to the nature of the eponymic ancestor?
Other gentes of Omaha fear to mention these Ictasanda names, or to bestow them on members of their gentes.
The storm ceased after the members of the other gentes offered prayers.
The Omaha of the other gentes fear to mention these Ictasanda nikie names, or to bestow them on members of their gentes, as well as to invoke the Thunder-being or beings, unless they belong to the order of Thunder shamans.
Does the gens of Sitting Bull camp on the left side of the tribal circle, occasioning the use of the left in all ceremonies, as among the Tsiɔu gentes of the Osage?
Wind people, who had to pitch their tents in the rear of the other gentes had a ceremony which they performed whenever there was a blizzard (§ 55).
The “fire paint” among the T[s]iɔu gentes of the Osage tribe is red.
But with the decay of the patriarchal gentes and the decline of their significance, conditions became more favorable to Roman women.
A social and economic development made the relation of the various gentes to one another more and more complicated, the interdict of marriage between certain groups became untenable and ceased to be observed.
With the increase in population a number of sister gentes arose that again brought forth several daughter gentes.
Paul Lafargue showed in an article published in the German periodical, "Neue Zeit," that names like Adam and Eva did not originally denote individual persons, but were the names of gentes in which the Jews were constituted in prehistoric days.
The division into gentes and phratries for centuries remained the foundation of military organization and the enactment of civic rights.
They had their Gentes and Familiæ, but they could not intermarry with the patricians.
The Gentes were divided into Familiæ, or families.
The Cornelii gentesfurnished fifteen consuls in one hundred and twelve years, and the Valerii, ten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
