servile origin

Sabinus was of servile origin, and, though ignorant, he affected to be a man of learning.

During his administration, clerics of servile origin steadily gained in status, now called ministerialis rather than servitor.

It is also of note that Junia possesses a Latin name which could have stemmed from servile origins.

(A Greek cognomen suggests servile origin.)

Aulus Gellius recorded the tradition that Statius was a name originally given to persons of servile origin.

Regardless of class, tombstones functioned as a symbol of rank and were chiefly popular among those of servile origin.

Photius describes him as a threptos, a kind of assistant of servile origin, to Cinnaeus and states that he was later a secretary to Heraclides Lembus.

A perusal of the names of Roman physicians will show that the majority are wholly or partly Greek and that many of the physicians were of servile origin.

Following the decimation of many clans' noble Imajaghan caste in the colonial wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Ineslemen gained leadership in some clans, despite their often servile origins.

The first is the midwifery was not a profession to which freeborn women of families that had enjoyed free status of several generations were attracted; therefore it seems that most midwives were of servile origin.

Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.

Since he knew her to have the Servilius Caepio sense of fitness and standing, he wasn't sure how she would react to the news that her sister-in-law had been divorced because of an involvement with a man of servile origins.

To his detractors, Buhari was ruthless, a rebel and an infidel to boot; while to his supporters he was a great administrator, a superb general and a progressive leader who numbered among his closest advisers persons of servile origin.

The two most influential men in Bruges, the castellan and the dean of St Donatian's,ex officio chancellor of Flanders, were both members of a powerful new family, the Erembalds, which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service.

The Erembald family, of which the chancellor of St Donatian's and the castellan of Bruges were members in 1127, was alleged by its opponents to be of servile origin; that its members chose to murder Charles the Good rather than dispute the allegation suggests its truth.