2016/03/07 by Arnaldo Momigliano, Tim Cornell · 1 citation
Chemistry · Social Sciences · #Chemistry #Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies #World Trade Organization Law
paper · doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6555
openalex publication_date 2016/03/07 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Division of the Roman people. In early times the Roman people were supposedly divided into three tribes (the word tribus may be connected with Latin tres = three) called Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres. There is no known parallel for this structure elsewhere in Italy. The suggestion that *Virgil (Aen. 10. 202, with Servius' comm.) refers to a tribal division at *Mantua is doubtful, while in the Iguvine tables (see tabulae iguvinae) trifu (= tribus?) means the whole community. Everything about the three original Roman tribes is obscure. The modern theory that they represent different ethnic groups (e.g. Latins, Sabines (see sabini), and *Etruscans) is unfounded and improbable. The three tribes were subdivided into curiae (see curia(1)) and were supposedly the basis of the earliest military organization of the state. A vestige of this system survived in the Roman cavalry; the six oldest centuries of cavalry comprised two each of Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres.