patres

patres

See also: Patres and pâtres

Latin

Noun

patrēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pater

Noun

patrēs m pl (genitive patrum); third declension

1. the patricians (members of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order)
2. the senators; the Senate

   Synonym: patrēs cōnscrīptī

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1:

     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.

References

• patres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to consult the senators on a matter: patres (senatum) consulere de aliqua re (Sall. Iug. 28)
    
• “patres”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “patres”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin