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The Patron-Client Relationship

The reciprocal Roman bond in which a higher-status patron gave protection, legal help, and gifts to lower-status clients, who returned loyalty, support, and the morning salutatio.

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  1. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  2. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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