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Why did they use to address some of the
senators as Conscript Fathers, others merely as
Fathers?1
Is it because they used to call those senators
originally assigned to that body by Romulus fathers
and patricians, that is to say ‘well-born,’ since
they could point out their fathers,2 while they
called those who were later enrolled from the commoners conscript fathers?
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Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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