patriciate
Example Sentences
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Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in the year eight hundred; and so the patriciate terminated.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David
When Paul Diacre says, that Charles added Rome to his States from the year 774; it is according to Duquet an hyperbolical expression53 since Charles himself was satisfied with the simple patriciate.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
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 Stephenson, Andrew
