That course was charted by Joseph Kennedy's cold-blooded and long-headed assessment of the revived patrician class, into which he was determined to insert his sons.

Since these criteria were very stringent, few men were accepted to the ranks of this particular patrician class.

Cincinnatus was regarded by the Romans, especially the aristocratic patrician class, as one of the heroes of early Rome and as a model of Roman virtue and simplicity.

Other slaves were set free; they gave themselves all the privileges formerly reserved to the Etruscans, such as the rights of intermarriage and inheritance, and aggressively insisted on them against the will of the Etruscan patrician class.

In fact, throughout the following century Genoa became the primary sponsor of the Spanish monarchy, reaping huge profits, which allowed the old patrician class to maintain for a certain period a substantial vitality.

In spite of his indebtedness to Caesar, Spinther increasingly tended to support and side with the patrician Senatorial class and their leader Pompey, rather than with Caesar and his popularist supporters.

The requirements for becoming a senator included having at least 100,000 denarii worth of land, being born of the patrician (noble aristocrats) class, and having held public office at least once before.

When Theodore Roosevelt demanded that Congress pass a steeply graduated inheritance tax in 1906, he was proposing the one bill that members of his own patrician class feared most.

Cicero assumes the voice of Caecus in a scathing prosopopoeia, where Caecus is incensed at Clodia for associating with Caelius, a member of the middle equestrian class instead of the upper patrician class.

Members of the aristocratic patrician class were excluded from this assembly.