1·In this manner the rights and interests of the several gentes were consulted and preserved.
各个氏族的权利和利益通过这种方式来协商而得以维持。
2·The humbler gentes had their common rites .
卑微的氏族有其共同仪典。
3·The humbler gentes had their common rites.
卑微的氏族有其共同仪典。
4·The conquerors being relatively few in number, large tracts of land were left undivided, as the property partly of the whole people, partly of the individual tribes and gentes.
由于征服者的人数相对来说较少，广大的土地未被分配，一部分归全体人民占有，一部分归各个部落和氏族占有。