If this supposition is correct, the passage then proves nothing at all about the position of free Roman women, and there can be even less question of any obligation resting on them to marry within the gens.

• 如果这一推测是正确的，那么那个决议对于完全自由的罗马妇女的地位根本就什么也没有证明； 更谈不上她们应在氏族内部结婚的义务了。