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  • These he called Patricians, and their assembly the Senate.

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In one word, the Patricians were a ruling and the Plebeians a subject class.

    A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

  • The Patricians were the old Roman noble families, whom Plutarch compares with the Athenian

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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