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Definition of Patricians
1. patrician [n] - See also: patrician
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patricians
Literary usage of Patricians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"The patricians and the comitia of tribes. tribuneship nevertheless remained, and
the tribunes directed less attention to the protection of the civil rights ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... and the tyranny of the laws regulating debt, as well as the monopoly by
patricians of state domains, had been allowed to go uncorrected until 494. ..."
3. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"The laws of the Twelve Tables still contained much that was undefined; very much
was still left to the arbitrary will of the judge—the patricians alone ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... as well as the monopoly by patricians of state domains, had been allowed to
go unconnected until 494. In this year a high-minded citizen, ..."
5. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1888)
"Treachery of the patricians and murder of Dentatus.—Appointment of the Decemvirs
to prepare a national code.—The Twelve Tables.—Violence of Appius Claudius ..."
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