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How to use patricians in a sentence

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Or that the patricians still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty.
Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
Its members ranged from patricians to populists, from Main Street Republicans to prairie socialists.
The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights.
He was stared at a bit rudely, but not spoken to by the sedate patricians of blue-blooded society who were present.
Promotion to the aedileship was automatic for patricians, but Vespasian wasn't a patrician.
The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.
Besides foreign corresponding members, about half were local Tuscan patricians or nobles, and half were non-nobles.
In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration.
Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians?
Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie.
The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders.
Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges.
They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous.
Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators.
Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment.
Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself.
The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The names of the patricians are balloted annually, and one of the number is chosen as Prior or Governor of the province.
As such they had no other resource but to depend on the largesses or the commissions of the most lordly of the patricians.
The patricians, now that the republic was without any curule magistrate, assembled together and elected an interrex.
These people, the plebs as they were called, were despised by many patricians.
This epic story shows the struggle between the lower class, plebians, and the upper class, patricians, through the generations of the Roman Republic.
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