Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Patrōnus

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Patrōnus

The Roman term for the protector of a single client, or of a whole community (see Clientes); the emancipator in relation to his freedman (see Libertus); and the judicial representative of accuser or accused. (See Orator.) For the distinction between patronus and advocatus, see the articles Advocatus; Judicial Procedure.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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