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Now the word
‘senate’ means literally a Council of Elders, and the councillors were called
‘patricians,’ as some say, because they were fathers of lawful children1; or rather, according to others, because they could tell who their own fathers were, which not many could do of those who first streamed into the city; according to others still, from
‘patronage,’ which was their word for the protection of inferiors, and is so to this day; and they suppose that a certain Patron, one of those who came to Italy with Evander, was a protector and defender of the poor and needy, and left his own name in the word which designates such activity.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.
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