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social structure of ancient Rome revolved around the distinction between the patricians and the plebeians. The status of patricians gave them more political

rise to be included in the ranks of the patricians. By the second century BC, the divide between patricians and plebeians had lost most of its distinction

In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other

Youngstown Patricians, a former semi-professional football team based in Youngstown, Ohio, USA A member of the Argentine Regiment of Patricians The Patrician, an

likely built at patrician expense, to mollify the plebs, the patricians brought the Magna Mater ("Great mother of the Gods") to Rome as their own "Trojan"

tradition and pressured by the patricians, they co-opted five colleagues, two of whom were patricians. Concerns that the patricians would attempt to influence

to appoint patricians to the Senate. What is known for certain is that the king alone possessed the right to the augury on behalf of Rome as its chief

constitutional history of Rome. Certain gentes were considered patrician, and others plebeian. According to tradition, the patricians were descended from the

descendants. Patrician ancestry, however, still conferred considerable prestige, and many religious offices remained restricted to patricians. A class division

case, only male patricians could hold, or participate in elections for, most political offices. Often, as in Venice, non-patricians had almost no political