Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

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t bonds, Romulus ordained that every Plebeian should choose from the Patricia

with his interest and substance. The client was obliged to pay the greatest res

inst each other, and whoever was found to have done so, might be slai

both hereditary and acquired by his own merit. In after times, even citie

Pr?tor, Censor or Curule Edile, were called nobiles, and had the right of making images of them

ses, and seem not to have brought out, except on solemn occasions. There were titles or inscriptions written below them, pointing out the honors they had enjoyed, and the e

y curule office, were called homines novi, new men or upstarts. Those who

avor of the multitude, were called populares, of whatever order they were. This was a division of factions, and not of rank or dignity. T