WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although modern writers often portray patricians as rich and powerful families who managed to secure power over the less-fortunate plebeian families, plebeians and patricians among the senatorial class were equally wealthy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most patricians were wealthy land owners. They owned the best land and used their position of power to dominate the governing of the Republic. In the early Republic, only patricians were allowed to run for public office.

Detailed explanation-3: -A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. Cameron was a rich man, a patrician. If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.

Detailed explanation-4: -Patricians were the elite aristocrats, wealthy noblemen who owned large amounts of land. Plebeians were common people, tradesmen and farmers-anyone who was not a patrician. Though plebeians made up most of Rome’s population, patricians held nearly all of the political power.

Detailed explanation-5: -The aristocracy (wealthy class) dominated the early Roman Republic. In Roman society, the aristocrats were known as patricians. The highest positions in the government were held by two consuls, or leaders, who ruled the Roman Republic.

Detailed explanation-6: -By the late Republic the only way to become a patrician would be to be born into a patrician family. By Trajan’s time, those who had the favor of the emperor would be invited into the patrician class.