| 单词 | rural tribe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrural tribe rural tribe n. Roman History a political division of ancient Roman citizens regarded as being of rural, rather than urban, origin; a tribe (tribe n. 2a) from outside the city of Rome; cf. urban tribe n. at urban adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World ii. xvi. 119/2 All the Rural Tribes judging they were upbraided with poverty by him [sc. Scipio], discharged their anger upon him, in refusing to give him their Votes. 1764 tr. J. J. Rousseau Treat. Social Compact iv. iv. 199 As the great and powerful thus got themselves registered in the rural tribes; and the freedmen..only filled up those of the city; the tribes in general had no longer a local distinction. 1848 D. M. Masson Hist. Rome 120 The new censors carefully removed out of the rural tribes all the ærarians, freedmen, and miscellaneous individuals of the town population..and enrolled them in the four town tribes. 1999 A. Lintott Constit. Rom. Republic v. 51 A reform..whereby liberated slaves themselves could enrol in a rural tribe, if they had a five-year-old son or a property of 30,000 sesterces in the country. < as lemmas |
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