The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights. |
Or that the patricians still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty. |
He was stared at a bit rudely, but not spoken to by the sedate patricians of blue-blooded society who were present. |
Its members ranged from patricians to populists, from Main Street Republicans to prairie socialists. |
Promotion to the aedileship was automatic for patricians, but Vespasian wasn't a patrician. |
Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians. |