Every Italian, and doubtless also every Hellenic, canton must, like the Roman, have been divided into a number of groups associated at once by
and by clanship ; such a clan-settlement is the “ house ” (oim’a) of the Greeks, from which very frequently the Kid/MIL and 85pm originated among them, like the tribus in Rome.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
