patriciate

Example Sentences

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

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

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

Among the districts of Italy some have and some have not a patriciate.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

In a growing patriciate home had become a weariness, marriage a form, children a trouble, and the decline of motherhood an alarming fact.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving

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