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How did a patrician get to become a patrician?

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Patrician was a social class in ancient Rome. One way to become one was to be born into that class. There is a mistaken notion that all patricians were rich. It is true that they were the powerful, wealthy class at the beginning of the city, but Rome has a long history, and over the years many patrician families lost their wealth. However they were still patricians despite their financial status. A second way to become a patrician was to have your status raised by a consul or an emperor, as Julius Caesar did with the family of the Octavii.

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