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For down to the present time foreign peoples call the members of their senate
‘chief men,’ but the Romans themselves call them
‘conscript fathers,’ using that name which has the greatest dignity and honour, and awakens the least envy. At first, then, they called them simply
‘fathers,’ but later, when more had been added to their number, they addressed them as
‘conscript fathers.’
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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