And if the patricianswere really innocent, why did they not urge the examination?
If the people suspected the patricians to be guilty of murder, why did they not endeavour to trace the fact by this evidence?
The old patricians were the subjects, the modern barons the tyrants, of the state; nor would the enemies of peace and order, who insulted the vicar of Christ, have long respected the unarmed sanctity of a plebeian magistrate.
Rienzi's cause triumphs, and in the hall of the capitol the patricians are forced to do homage to the victor.
While Irene struggles for freedom, a rival faction of patricians arrives, led by Colonna, whose son, Adriano, is in love with Irene.
Court could not restrain their sneer at "the fishermen of Venice," the stately patricians who could look back from merchant-noble to merchant-noble through ages when the mushroom houses of England were unheard of.
Of this political attitude of its patricians Venice is itself the type.
The fugitive patricians were neither more nor less citizens of the imperial province because they had fled from Padua or Altinum to Malamocco or Torcello.
The patricians laid violent hands, not only upon the plebeians, but upon all the property of the State, assuming to the utmost all its rights, and repudiating all its duties.
Terentillus Arsa brought in a bill for getting the patricians and plebeians to a better understanding, by putting them on nearly the same footing.
Thus did the patricians lose a privilege they had abused; and the two Consuls drove four-in-hand into the city in spite of them.
The patricians would have stood by their order; but the difficulty was to know how public order, as well as their own order, could be preserved; and it was at length agreed that a dictator should be appointed.
There existed within the walls a fashionable boys' school, to which the patricians sent their sons, who were frequently taken out walking in the suburbs.
The whole of the profits of war went into the pockets of the upper class; and though the plebeians drew the sword, the patricians drew whatever money was to be obtained from the enemy.
A Report remarking that the Abbe Carlo Grimani believed himself exempt, in his position as a priest, from the interdiction laid on patricians against frequenting foreign ministers and their suites.
Many patricians have left the capital and others will follow their example.
In the afternoon the count presented me to the patricians who seemed astonished to see me at Trieste.
The patricians Andrea Memmo and his brother Bernardo who, with P.
Thereupon they began operations which were at first restricted to the China seas, but were afterward extended to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and finally to the Mediterranean.
His avowed aims were at the opposite pole to those of his colleagues.
He had only given it a tardy and cold assent, qualified by an occasional sally of keen pleasantry.
A food-distributer, for instance, or the Secretary of a Treasury, wanted a receipt for expenditure abroad from the people that benefited by it.
The larger cities had lists where the sons of the patricians held their knightly exercise and ran at the ring, also shooting galleries, and trenches for crossbow and rifle practice.
In the old Imperial cities, the patricians had generally, like the guilds, their especial club-houses or rooms, and the luxury of such a society was then greater in proportion than now.
Gracchus his democratic colleague, proposed the same measure himself in order to show and prove to the people that the patricians were their best friends; the success of this policy gained him the name of "patron of the senate.
But in the other Italian cities the homes of her patricians were crowded into the narrow streets where their architecture fails of its due effect.
And the patricians over whom he presided daily rose to greater power and daring, and particularly when the arrival of Frederic II.
In fact, many of the leading patricians were acquiring a reputation in the new mode of war, gaining followers, and by taking the command of small companies gradually rising to power, and aspiring to become tyrants.
Tegghiaio Aldobrandi degli Adimari was one of the first patricians to speak against the proposal and in favour of delay.
From this moment, therefore, a struggle between the people and the patricians (grandi) was inevitable.
These patricians were now known by the name of grandi, and in imitation of the French nobility assumed manners ill-suited to a republican state, trying to rule everything and all men according to their will.
Think of the patricians and senators wagering their collars and bracelets, and their sesterces in millions, on the strength of your arm, and the point of your blade.
Irene, which the patricianswere required to attend.
Whereupon the emperor obliged the two patricians to surrender their treasure, and, after renovating the neighbouring church of the Theotokos of Blachernae, deposited the relic in that sanctuary as its proper home.
Peter and Mark was founded, it is said, by two patricians of Constantinople, named Galbius and Candidus, in 458, early in the reign of Leo I.
Meanwhile, Cesare and his merry young patricians spent the time as agreeably as might be in Cesena during that carnival.
With these young patricians Cesare made merry during the days that followed.
Of these daring Englishmen, patricians and plebeians together, in two open pinnaces, there were not more than one hundred in number, all told.
As such it was violently opposed both by the patricians and by the wealthy plebeians.
I tell you, friends, most charitable care Have the patricians of you.
We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
All places yield to him ere he sits down, And the nobility of Rome are his; The senators and patricianslove him too.
Ere in our own house I do shade my head, The good patricians must be visited; From whom I have receiv'd not only greetings, But with them change of honours.
Other evidence of the conquests made by the gospel among the patricians is given by an inscription discovered in March, 1866, in the Catacombs of Prætextatus, near the monument of Quirinus the martyr.
These are by no means the only patricians of high standing whose names have come to light from the depths of the catacombs.
He is represented as a monstrous tyrant, whose arbitrary acts caused both patricians and plebeians to unite and drive him and all his house into exile.
The strife between the Romans and their Latin allies was simply the old contest within the walls of the capital between the patricians and the plebeians transferred to a larger arena.
The patricians offered a stubborn resistance to their wishes, but finally were forced to yield to the popular clamor.
No sooner had the plebeians virtually secured admission to the consulship, than the jealous and exclusive patricians commenced scheming to rob them of the fruit of the victory they had gained.
This body, which of course was made up of patricians and plebeians, gradually absorbed the powers of the earlier patrician assembly (comitia curiata).
The patricianssaw clearly that such a division must prove ruinous to the state, and that the plebeians must be persuaded to give up their enterprise and come back to Rome.
The two important classes of the population of Rome under the kingdom and the early republic, were the patricians and the plebeians.
Their wagons were heaped with the costly furniture, the rich plate, and the silken garments stripped from the palaces of the wealthy patricians and the temples of the gods.
The patriciansgave up their consuls and the plebeians their tribunes.
Later, there came into existence another tribal assembly, which was composed of patriciansand plebeians, and presided over by consuls or prætors.
To murder me in my robes of peace, at the Comitia, to murder the consuls elect, to murder the patricians to a man, was his own task, most congenial to his own savage nature!
Some shouted in the streets and open places, that the patricians and the knights were arming their adherents for a promiscuous massacre of the people.
Conscript Fathers, prætorians, patricians of the great old houses, I see them in their places here; ready to vote immediately on their own monstrous schemes!
Footnote 93: Intermarriages between the Patricians and Plebeians were prohibited by the laws of the XII Tables; and the uniform operations of human nature may attest that the custom survived the law.
Little more was left when Constantine ascended the throne, than a vague and imperfect tradition, that the Patricians had once been the first of the Romans.
The proudest and most perfect separation which can be found in any age or country, between the nobles and the people, is perhaps that of the Patricians and the Plebeians, as it was established in the first age of the Roman republic.
Any Roman citizen might accuse another before the Praetor; and not unfrequently the young patricians undertook the prosecution of an obnoxious magistrate, merely to recommend themselves to the notice or favour of their countrymen.
The patricians generally resisted these decrees, as they were chiefly directed against the authority of the Senate, and the privileges of the higher orders of the state.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patricians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
