The extended family
Mar 02, 2020
1 minute
ach housed a . This Latin word meant more than simply ‘family’ – it signified a household of people linked by, his wife and their children, but also members of the extended family as well as slaves and ex-slaves (freedmen). Larger households probably contained dozens of people, with a high proportion of slaves and freedmen.
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