Crossword-Solution: AGNATS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

His relatives or kinsmen,--_agnats et cognats_,--if they were fools, would be nothing to him; and in no case, with the exception of the heir apparent, would they have, even in court, more privileges than others.

Among the Romans agens or lineage was united by a common name and domestic rites; the various cognomens or surnames of Scipio, or Marcellus, distinguished from each other the subordinate branches or families of the Cornelian or Claudian race: the default of the agnats, of the same surname, was supplied by the larger denomination of gentiles; and the vigilance of the laws maintained, in the same name, the perpetual descent of religion and property.

Their edicts restored and emancipated posthumous children to the rights of nature; and upon the failure of the agnats, they preferred the blood of the cognats to the name of the gentiles whose title and character were insensibly covered with oblivion.

Among the Romans _agens_ or lineage was united by a common _name_ and domestic rites; the various _cognomens_ or _surnames_ of Scipio, or Marcellus, distinguished from each other the subordinate branches or families of the Cornelian or Claudian race: the default of the _agnats_, of the same surname, was supplied by the larger denomination of _gentiles_; and the vigilance of the laws maintained, in the same name, the perpetual descent of religion and property.

Their edicts restored and emancipated posthumous children to the rights of nature; and upon the failure of the _agnats_, they preferred the blood of the _cognats_ to the name of the gentiles whose title and character were insensibly covered with oblivion.