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Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.
The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny Orestes Augustus Brownson 1839
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As Father's Day approaches, it's a good time to step back and ponder the evolution of the patres familias on television.
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Suscepit Israel puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae, sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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Suscepit Israel puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae, sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
MAGNIFICAT de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Suscepit Israel puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae, sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
Archive 2008-10-12 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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As [6564] Bernard (erroneously some say) speaks of P. Aliardus, omnes patres sic, atque ego sic.
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A most memorable observation, [3656] Scaliger accounts it, et non praetereundum, maximorum virorum plerosque patres ignoratos, matres impudicas fuisse.
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Perierunt igitur omnes patres nostri, quia in infantia non potuerunt Christi baptismate baptizari.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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And in the last place are patres patriae; which reign justly, and make the times good wherein they live.
The Essays 2007
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Nam in hoc quod patres corrupti sunt, generant filios corruptae complexionis, et compositionis, et filii eorum eadem de causa se corrumpunt, et sic derivatur corruptio a patribus ad filios.
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