patriciate
Example Sentences
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Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
By procuring the transference of the patriciate from the Roman people to himself Henry assured his influence over the appointment of the popes, and accordingly also nominated the successors of Clement II.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Its patriciate, its people, its government were not what government or people or patriciate were in other countries of Western Christendom.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
