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The gens Lemonia was an ancient but obscure family at Rome. Hardly any members of this gens are known, and the name might be entirely forgotten, were it not for the fact that the Lemonii gave their name to one of the Servian tribes. [1] This dates the family to at least the middle of the sixth century BC, when they may have been major landholders in the region later known as the pagus Lemonius, but none of the Lemonii are known to have held any magistracies over the history of the Republic. A few Lemonii are known from inscriptions; a family of this name lived in Venetia and Histria. [2]

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In ancient Rome, a gens, plural gentes, was a family consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps. The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the period of the Roman Republic. Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged. Certain gentes were considered patrician, others plebeian, while some had both patrician and plebeian branches. The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times.

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  1. ↑ Cicero, Pro Plancio, 38.
  2. ↑ Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome, pp. 174, 177, 178.
  3. ↑ InscrAqu, vol. II, Np. 2384.
  4. ↑ AE 1987, 447.
  5. ↑ ILLConcordia, vol. II, No. 84.
  6. ↑ CIL V, 2974.

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<i>Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum</i> comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions

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