Significatio vocis patres | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pater
   accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, vocative
2. the patricians (members of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order)
   declension-3
3. the senators; the Senate
   declension-3

Exempla

“Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.”

When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

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