Once it had passed into the private possession of families and there rapidly begun to augment, this wealth dealt a severe blow to the society founded on pairing marriage and the matriarchal gens.

• 这些财富，一旦转归各个家庭私有并且迅速增加起来，就给了以对偶婚和母权制氏族为基础的社会一个有力的打击。