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A Patrician was a wealthy upper class citizen of the Roman Republic. From the Latin pater ("father") the term was originally used to describe the earliest Senators of the Republic, who were the elite Roman citizens. The term patrician evolved through the history of the Republic, and by the early days of the Roman Empire, the term was mostly... [
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