patriciate

Example Sentences

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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

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 Greene, John Richard

The seventh, or future one, was the patriciate.

From The Last Reformation by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)

It was composed in the prison to which Theodoric had consigned the wisest of the 15old Roman patriciate; and it is commonly regarded as closing the canon of Roman literature.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John

Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston