patrician in the PONS Dictionary

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The old town contains many interesting houses of patricians, some in the baroque style.
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It is thought that originally only patricians were eligible for the consulship.
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He, as opposed to most characters, is not a historical figure, but the patrician family to which he belongs is historical.
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This feature is absent in the old upper-class dialect of the patricians.
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The descendants of those 100 men subsequently became the patrician class.
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The centuries were organized on the basis of property ownership, and any individual, patrician or plebeian, could become a member of a century.
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However, the name does not seem to have been used regularly by any other patrician family.
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In an attempt to add a level of organization to the city, these patrician families were divided into units called curiae.
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The other patrician families were called the "gentes minores".
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Patricians always married by "confarreatio", while plebeians married by the latter two kinds.
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