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These he called Patricians, and their assembly the Senate.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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From Fronto I learned to observe what envy, and duplicity, and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
The Meditations 2004
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From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
I 1909
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From Fronto [168] I learned to observe what envy, and duplicity, and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887
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The nobler ones, who could count up from old Trojan, Latin, or Sabine families, were called Patricians -- from _pater_, a father -- because they were fathers of the people; and the other families were called Plebeian, from _plebs_, the people.
Young Folks' History of Rome Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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In one word, the Patricians were a ruling and the Plebeians a subject class.
A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853
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The Patricians were the old Roman noble families, whom Plutarch compares with the Athenian
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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From Fronto [C] I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839
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Acadian children wore such to imitate "_grandpère_," centuries ago; Cowley's trees are "Patricians," these are Patriarchs.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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