| Finally, the crisis with the Gracchus brothers revealed the weakness of the patriciate and of the constitution. |
| The dignity of office was in turn applied to the class that provided office-holders, to the point of creating an urban patriciate, a separate estate. |
| Here the rural areas too were in the hands of the towns and the patriciate ruled unchallenged. |
| As the Venetian patriciate developed new strategies for collective self-definition, so too did the doges. |
| No emulation of aristocratic practices is more obvious than the commissioning of portraits by the urban patriciate in Bruges. |
| The patriciate of Rome had combined with the people to place its destinies in Dea Flavia's hands. |
