captain of horse and one warden of the city, his principal deputes[errata 1]. It thus appears that the ritual institutions of the Hill-city were continued, and that the doubled burgess-body was required to furnish a military force of double numerical Btrength; but in other respects the incorporation of the Quirinal city into the Palatine was really a subordination of the former to the latter. All other indications attest that it was so. The appellation of "lesser clans" (minores gentes) appears to have been applied to all who were known to be subsequent additions to the original burgesses; but there is reason to presume that originally this distinction of old and new burgesses was identical with the distinction of the first and second Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres, and consequently that the gentes of the Quirinal city were primarily the "new." The distinction was certainly more an honorary than a legal precedence; but it is a significant circumstance that in taking the vote in the senate the senators taken from the greater clans were always asked before those of the lesser.[1] In like manner the Colline region ranked as inferior even to the Suburban (Esquiline) region of the Palatine city; the priest of the Quirinal Mars as inferior to the priest of the Palatine Mars; the Quirinal Salii and Luperci as inferior to those of the Palatine. It thus appears that the Synoikismos, by which the Palatine community absorbed that of the Quirinal, marked an intermediate stage between the earliest Synoikismos by which the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres became blended, and all those that took place afterwards. The annexed community was no longer allowed to form a separate tribe in the new whole, but it probably furnished at least a distinct portion of each tribe, and its ritual institutions were not only allowed to subsist, as was afterwards clone in other cases, after the capture of Alba, for example, but were raised into institutions of the united community, a course which was not pursued in any subsequent instance.
- ↑ As to the minores gentes, apart from conjectures of little historical value as to the time of their admission into the burgess body (Cic. de Rep. ii. 20, 35; Liv. i. 35; Tacit. Ann. xi. 25; Victor, Viri Ill. 6), nothing is recorded by tradition, except that they had a secondary position in voting in the senate (Cic. l. c.), and that the Papirii belonged to them (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 21). The latter circumstance is remarkable, for a region derived its name from this gens (p. 38). The same was the case with the Fabii (l. c.), who seem also to have belonged to the Hill-city (p. 55).
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