He called these men Patricians: they were fathers of Rome, not only because they cared for their own legitimate citizen-sons but because they had a fatherly care for Rome and all its people.
В Риме не хватало женского населения — соседние народы справедливо считали постыдным для себя вступление в родственные союзы с толпой бродяг, как они называли в то время римлян.