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Roman nobility who embody laws, tradition, and history and exercise power through the Senate and patron-client networks.
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patricians
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The Roman republic is a society governed by laws, tradition, and history embodied in patrician nobility.
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"...things are manifested in the nobility. Okay? What the Romans call patricians. Patricians. And the patricians will exercise power. For something called the Senate...."
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"...eyes, even as I proceed to speak and note the great patricians of this, most just and merciful empire. Those two who there above..."
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"...dozen reformers who who were part of the elite who were patricians aristocrats who tried to reform the system you know like the the..."
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"...one of the Gracchi brothers that Alex referenced, he was a patrician."
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"...100 families that commanded it, okay? And these were called the patricians. It was actually... It was actually to the advantage of Rome, because..."
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"...each region is controlled by a certain noble family. Okay? The patricians. And as a result, what happened is, as... Okay, and these are..."
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"...particular beautiful girls who had been marked out of the leading patricians were carried to their houses by plebeians told off for the task...."
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"...of the Roman Republic. When you have, you know, a few patrician families, you know, a few corporations, BlackRock, Vanguard, And the way that..."
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"...nobility and ordinary people. Okay? So nobility are what we call patricians. The patricians. And the ordinary people are what we call the plebeians...."
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