 A family might be concentrated at one location or appear in a number of cities, and be spelled in as many as a dozen different ways.The Romans themselves identified a good many gentes at Rome that were originally Etruscan and since then scholars have spotted more.It is not unlikely that much of the patrician class, which was most powerful under the Etruscan kings, was or was derived from an Etruscan model, which dated to no earlier than the 8th century BC.